With thanks to Bookouture, I am delighted to be on the tour for this read.
Starting over with the plot:
Sometimes you have to reach the end of the road before you can start over.
Kerry is perfectly happy with her life. She gets up at the same time every day to deliver post in the winding lanes and little villages around where she lives, stopping for a chat at some of the houses along the way. Once a month she has Sunday lunch with her sister Beth’s perfect family, to eat roast chicken while Beth tells her why she should want more out of life.
Beth thinks Kerry is kidding herself. She thinks Kerry needs to move out of the horrible little apartment converted from the garage in their parents’ garden, find a better job, and maybe even meet a man. And now their parents’ house is up for sale, Beth is going to make sure Kerry gets a life… whether Kerry likes it or not.
Kerry knows something Beth doesn’t, though. She knows the happiest of marriages can hide dark secrets, and that even the people you love most in the world can betray you. She’s known that since she was seventeen years old, when she learned her father’s secret.
It’s far safer not to get close to people… Isn’t it?
Bobs and Books honest review:
A thoughtful read about starting over.
Goodness me poor Kerry goes through the motions, and I was turning the chapters I kept thinking, please do not let anymore happen to this woman!
Some very sensitive and topical subject matters dealt with delicately and in an unusual way which added to the depths of the characters.
The sister relationship with Beth is one that really intrigued me. I also thought it was clever how the past informed present and future actions, it was very cleverly woven in.
Thought provoking, surprising, sensitive.
About the author:
Over her twenty-year writing career, Louise Voss has published books via pretty much every publishing model there is, from deals with major traditional publishing houses (Transworld and HarperCollins), to digital (Thomas & Mercer and Bookouture) and self-publishing. In 2011, she and co-author Mark Edwards were the first UK indie-published authors to hit the No.1 spot on Amazon UK. Louise has written thirteen novels in total, seven solo and six co-written, across psychological thrillers, police procedurals and contemporary fiction.
https://www.facebook.com/louisevossauthor/
Out now.
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