July 2021
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Why pretend your life is a dream when you’re living a nightmare?
When Annie met Dom, he seemed like everything she was waiting for: charming, loving, generous. When they got married, and he showed her the studio he’d built in the garden for her to paint in, she knew that at last she had found a way to be free.
She didn’t notice the trap until it had closed around her. And now, as she does his shopping and cooks his food and sits waiting for him well into the night, she has to smile through her tears, hide her anger, and tell no one the truth, not even her sister Isla.
Isla thought Annie was happy. They have always been as close as sisters can be, they knew everything about each other. And then the call comes in the middle of the night. Annie and Dom are dead.
When Isla arrives at her sister’s house, the smell of smoke still hangs on the air, and soon she realises she didn’t know Annie at all.
Because Annie was living a lie.
And as Isla sifts through the ashes, she must decide whether she wants to know the truth, or to protect what’s left of her family…
Review:
I found this quite sad when I learnt of the death of a character. I loved how the tale swung between the characters past and present. At first the swinging around from past to present annoyed me because I just wanted to know what had happened in the present, but, by giving us the past it built up the picture to the conclusion. I couldn’t put this one down and have never before read this author so will be keen to look at other books they may have written.
