ASIN : B0BBGDH766
October 2022
About:
Then: Morning light shines into the nursery, casting shadows across the pale pink walls and wooden cot in the middle of the room. She opens the door expecting to hear the soft coo of her daughter Sofia stretching herself awake. But the room is silent. The cot is empty. Her little girl has vanished…
Now: Twelve years have passed, but Emily will never forget the night her life changed forever and she’s happy to have her daughter back beside her. A teenager now, Sofia – who was once a star student – is getting into trouble at school and she’s started asking questions about when she was a baby, but Emily can’t tell her what really happened the night she went missing. Nobody would understand why Emily did what she did, and if anyone ever found out, she could lose her daughter forever.
But when Emily catches Sofia messaging a stranger online, her heart pounds in her chest as she reads the last message received.
Your mother isn’t who you think she is.
Days later, Emily returns home to find the house silent. She checks every room but Sofia has vanished, again. She shudders as she remembers that night in the nursery. Has her past finally caught up with her? And is she already too late to save her precious daughter?
Review:
The blurb on the front of the book is what grabbed my attention to read The Nursery. It took a long time before this information started to manifest itself in the story, up until which point I was thinking it was misleading the reader.
It twists around a lot, Emily overthinks everything and her constant fear is highlighted throughout, at times annoyingly too much.
It took me some time to stay with this story and really get into it. The storyline is different giving us real insight into the supposed culprit throughout.
Nancy the character we all get bored of, Sofia’s classic teenager moods, the darling Mr Woods trying to keep an eye on his charges, the charismatic Oliver giving Emily hope of a beautiful future, the nosy neighbour who just slots into the story because Emily needs a vantage point and the manipulative Carys, all are not what they seem, but then as the reader we knew that, it was just fitting it altogether that was the puzzle.
It’s a good story with an ending I didn’t see coming.
Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to review this book.
