Kylie Orr
February 2024
ISBN: 9781867227298
About:
The view is a killer … Darkly compelling and twisty psychological drama from a talented new Australian author. Perfect for readers who love Sally Hepworth, Pip Drysdale and Adele Parks.
Will one mother’s lie cost another woman her life? Sleep deprived, struggling and at breaking point, first-time mum Gracie Michaels books one night – alone – at The Maxwell Hotel. A king-size bed all to herself. No demands. With time to recharge she’ll be able to return to her family more like the unflappable mother she pretends to be. Instead, she wakes in a room she doesn’t recognise after an encounter with a man who is not her husband. Then she sees something she wishes she didn’t. Being drawn into a crime was not something Gracie had planned for her hotel stay but when a distraught family appeals for information and a police investigation heats up she is trapped in a maze of lies. To speak out jeopardises her marriage, but her silence threatens her son, her sanity and her safety. Will Gracie destroy her own family by telling the truth or devastate someone else’s by keeping her secrets?
My Review:
The research and findings that have gone into this very difficult subject must have been quite intense and disturbing at times.
Wanting to get away for one night from the rounds of baby feeds and lack of sleep, her husband encourages her to go off on her own and she checks into a luxury hotel that was booked for her and her husband as a treat. The hotel is hosting a conference so Gracie finds herself in a hotel teeming with salesmen and woman.
Drugs and rape or was it consensual? murder, secrets and lies and an exhausted new mum, who made the mistake of being talked into going to have a drink in the hotel bar.
Many new mums will relate that they lose themselves when a baby arrives and they want to find time for themselves and to feel sexy again.
Waking up in a strangers bed on the eleventh floor Gracies nightmares begin when she witnesses a woman being assaulted who is later found murder. Did she consent to sleeping with this stranger, was she the last person to see the murder victim alive?
Gracie discovers she has caught aa viral disease that due to breastfeeding now puts her newborn at risk.
Should Gracie speak out knowing she has infected her son and in turn destroy her marriage.
Kylie Orr as covered a lot of sensitive topics and created a character that ultimately has to move from victim to being empowered and strong and face things head on.
