Laura Marshall
ASIN : B01LWTZ751
July 2017
About:
Maria Weston wants to be friends with me
Maybe that had been the problem all along: Maria Weston had wanted to be friends with me, but I let her down.
She’s been hovering at the edge of my consciousness for all of my adult life, although I’ve been good at keeping her out, just a blurred shadow in the corner of my eye, almost but not quite out of sight.
Maria Weston wants to be friends.
But Maria Weston has been dead for more than twenty-five years.
My Review:
For a first novel this is gripping. The saying hiding in plain sight is so prevalent in this story.
The plot runs fluidly but Louise’s guilt is slightly overplayed by being a continuous thread repeated throughout.
I so wanted Maria to be alive, I almost expected Catherine to be her and that would have tied things up nicely. However the characters Catherine and Daisy never appear, they are just names to fill a gap, a reason for Sam to have left.
Sophie the girl we all love to dislike, good at everything, beautiful and sassy but scratch below the surface and the cracks appear.. Sophie’s armour takes a beating when Pete her date reveals too much to Louise.
And to Maria who is resurrected and haunting those to whom she feels as wronged her, that twist I never saw coming.
