by Cecelia Ahern
Published 10th October 2024
About:
A storm lies ahead of her. Freedom lies beyond it …
‘A terrific story! It had me completely gripped from the very first page’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
‘An emotional rollercoaster of a book … will grab you by the heart and not let you go until the very last gripping word’ SAM BLAKE
ONE NIGHT
It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya is crouched over a teenage boy, performing CPR in the rain.
ONE MOMENT
The boy survives, but Enya’s life splinters in two. Trapped in a loveless marriage, the storm propels her to break free.
ONE CHANCE TO BE FREE
But even in the remote country town that becomes her sanctuary, Enya is haunted by the night in the rain.
Beneath the boughs of an ancient tree that tells a thousand stories, can she find the courage to face her own?
My review:
Following Enya a doctor on a journey to find herself by moving to a remote village where she hopes no one knows her., to her dismay at finding a large tree covered in rags outside the window of her rental and upsetting the locals who initially welcomed her by having branches cut off.
Enya is strong willed but in someways also weak, putting up with a cold unfeeling husband who tries to isolate her from her son.
Her son is difficult to reach, a 15yr old who isn’t interested in his mum’s thoughts or love and embarrassed by affection.
Just when Enya is starting to find her feet her past comes back to play havoc on her life. The outcome and conclusion I didn’t see coming. I did feel a bit like Alexander was a bolt on, a husband because Enya’s character needed one. He worked well at the start but seemed to fade away halfway through. Marks character was unlikeable from the start and he really was just a distraction to create the right timeline for the accident.
Margaret was hard to visualise, the body build still puzzles me, she obviously looked quite an odd character. And Finn, the link to everything, an awkward 15yr old who is easy to visualise and understand as he struggles to navigate between two high achieving parents.
It was nice to read a book that the main character didn’t get a cosy outcome. I so wanted Enya to have the life she’d created but the author had other plans and gave Enya the life she deserved.
