BOOK BLURB
You shared a secret with the wrong person.
Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.
Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to. Tanya takes Janey under her wing, and her teenage daughter Angel is amazing with Janey’s little boy. As Janey and Tanya grow closer, Janey feels she can finally leave her troubled past behind.
But then everything changes…
In a weak moment over a bottle of wine, Janey finds herself telling Tanya her most shocking secret. Why wouldn’t she trust her new friend?
The following day, Janey sees Angel, with a man old enough to be her father, pushing someone into a car. The next day a body is found and police appeal for witnesses – and share a picture of the same car…
When Janey tells Tanya she is going to the police, Tanya turns threatening. She’ll stop at nothing to defend Angel, even if her daughter is guilty. If Janey says anything, Tanya will make sure that her dark secret gets out.
Janey faces an impossible choice. Stay quiet about what she saw that terrible day. Or speak up, and destroy the family she has worked so hard to protect…
One thing that I most definitely do not miss now that my children are adults is the daily gauntlet that is the school run, the groups of mums standing around gossiping and giggling amongst themselves and the horrible paranoid feeling that they are talking about you. Feeling torn between wanting to be one of them and getting away as fast as possible. The feeling of non inclusion is even stronger when you have just moved to a new area just like Janey and her family.So I could fully understand her desire to be accepted by glamourous Tania and her group of yummy mummies especially considering Janey's isolated,mysterious past and her feelings of being abandoned by her husband Isaac despite his promises that things would get better once they had moved into their new home. Although I thought that her interactions with poor young Jasper were sweet and did she go up a little bit in my estimations by the end of the story, I can't say that I thought Janey was a very likeable character for various reasons. Actually I can't say that I thought most of the adults were very likeable including Isaac although I did change my mind about a couple of them by the time I got to the conclusion. You couldn't help feeling a lot of sympathy for the poor kids who had found themselves lumbered with this group of pampered parents. Interspersed throughout the book and the parts that were my favourite was chapters that were voiced from the perspective of a eighteen year old girl called Susan who was being held captive by a young woman and a older man but who was she and how did she fit into the story?
To be honest, it did take a while for this story to grab my attention, it wasn't fast paced but it did eventually intrigue me enough to encourage me to stick with it until the end. As readers have come to expect with K.L.Sister's thrillers it was well written and tightly plotted,the characters were vivid and realistic, some of them were not who they appeared to be and the story had a satisfactory conclusion.
Four months earlier
Irene places the last items in the box, kisses her own fingers and presses them on top of the contents before closing the lid one last time.
Soon, she will leave this world and its pain and miseries behind and for her, that time can’t come fast enough.
Since she found out about her illness, Irene has done little but debate whether to tell her daughter the truth. She has lurched between feeling sure the past should stay buried to convincing herself that Janey needs to know and she needs to hear it from her own mother, her flesh and blood.
Irene glances down at the box, her breathing ragged, her bony hands shaking and pale. All the answers are here for Janey when she feels ready for them. All Irene needs do now, is to set the ball rolling and tell her everything.
She hears Janey’s footsteps down the hallway and her daughter appears with two mugs of tea.
‘Ready for a cuppa, Mum?’ she says, her voice bright but her face is grey and drawn and tells a different story.
‘Come and sit down beside me, Janey,’ Irene says, her voice like scratchy parchment paper. ‘There’s something you need to know. Something that will change everything.’
Author Bio:
For many years, Kim sent her work out to literary agents but never made it off the slush pile. At the age of 40 she went back to Nottingham Trent University and now has an MA in Creative Writing.
Before graduating, she received five offers of representation from London literary agents which was, as Kim says, ‘a fairytale … at the end of a very long road!’
Kim is a full-time writer and lives in Nottingham with her husband, Mac.
PUBLICATION DATE: 21st May 2020
PRINT LENGTH: 259 Pages
PUBLISHER: Bookouture
ASIN: BO84ZP7P64
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
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