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BLOG TOUR BOOK REVIEW - Keep Her Quite by Emma Curtis


                                                                 BOOK DESCRIPTION

Jenny has just given birth to the baby she's always wanted. She's never been this happy.
Her husband, Leo, knows this baby girl can't be his. He's never felt so betrayed.
The same night, a vulnerable young woman, Hannah, wakes to find her newborn lifeless beside her. She's crazed with grief.
When chance throws Hannah into Leo's path, they make a plan that will have shattering consequences for all of them.
Years later, a sixteen-year-old girl reads an article in a newspaper, and embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about herself. But what she learns will put everything she has ever known - and her own life - in grave danger. Because some people will go to desperate lengths to protect the secrets their lives are built on . . .

Split into two parts that are set sixteen years apart and narrated from the perspectives of Jenny, Leo, Hannah and sixteen year old Zoe this is a captivating tale of how the paths of the lives of a mother and her child were operated and sent in different directions due to the actions of a selfish, narcissistic man and a obviously damaged young girl. And the shocking consequences when their paths reconnected and the lies and deceptions from the past started to unravel in the present day. Hannah's upbringing was very secluded and she had just been through a very traumatic experience before she first encountered Leo which raised the question, did she actually have the mental capacity to understand how shocking her actions and demands were? It was also kind of ironic that sixteen years later Hannah was forcing Zoe to live in circumstances that were not too dissimilar to her own upbringing just because she didn't want Zoe to uncover the truth about her abduction and true parentage. Hannah seemed to have forgotten the saying, you can never outrun your past, it will always find a way to catch up with you. I really wanted Zoe to be reunited with her poor mother Jenny who had been distraught when her daughter disappeared. Despite the deceptive way that Sophie was conceived, I couldn't help feeling a lot of sympathy for Jenny especially after Sophie disappeared but I seriously couldn't understand why she stayed with obnoxious, freeloader Leo. He was a really unlikable character for various reasons but once the past started to catch up with him just how far was he prepared to go to prevent the truth from coming out and ruining the career and image he had worked so hard (and spent Jenny's money) to cultivate? And how much of his behaviour was also influenced by his upbringing?

This is a captivating, tightly plotted thriller that hooks the reader in from the first page and plays with the reader's emotions causing you to experience a wide range of feelings about the various, mainly flawed characters. It's a well written tale of secrets deceptions, manipulation,lies, consequences and repercussions. It's a very enjoyable read and very highly recommended.

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Emma Curtis was born in Brighton and now lives in London with her husband. After raising her two children and working various jobs, her fascination with the darker side of domestic life inspired her to write her acclaimed debut novel, One Little Mistake. When I Find You is her second thriller.                        

PUBLICATION DATE: 6th August 2020
PRINT LENGTH: 425 Pages
PUBLISHER: Transworld Digital
GENRE: Kidnapping Crime Drama

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