After a series of miscarriages,
Kate’s marriage is hanging by a thread. When her husband Michael reveals that
the daughter he abandoned twenty years ago is coming to stay Kate is unsure who
she feels about it.
Within hours of the news, Immy arrives - her new
stepdaughter is beautiful but troubled and seems wary of her own father. All
the same, Kate is pleased to find herself connecting with Imogen, until one
day, Imogen reveals a disturbing secret to her stepmother, making her swear
never to tell a soul.
With Kate already keeping secrets of her own, she
worries her marriage will crumble under the weight of another. But perhaps it’s
not Imogen’s intrusion Kate should be worried about. Perhaps it’s Michael’s
past she should have been looking at all along…
I read The Pupil by the same
author and gave it a five star review,
so I was really excited to start this one. The description marked it out as a Psychological
Thriller, however I don’t think it was – it was a story of a family, albeit
somewhat dysfunctional, each with their own secrets and how those secrets would
later connect them together.
I didn’t seem to gel with any
of the characters, none of them seemed believable, or likable – except for Timba
the family’s lovely dog.
This isn’t what I was expecting
from the book, and even from the title, I assumed there would be some drama
between Kate and Immy but it wasn’t anything like that, and in fact, that part
of the family bond didn’t really factor in at all.
I found the beginning and
middle of the book quite a slog, however towards the end, it really seemed to
gather pace, and I was romping through it even staying up until late in the night
to get to the end.
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