By: Kate Hewitt
Many thanks to Bookouture for the ARC of this book and the stop on the book tour!
About the Book
It only took a moment for everything to go wrong. A little girl is hurt, but who is to blame?
I’m so happy as I walk to pick up my seven-year-old son from the birthday party. It’s his first since we moved here, and I know he’s found it hard settling in. Just as I’ve found it hard to make friends among the mothers at the school gates. But as I turn the corner, my heart stops when I see an ambulance.
I start to run. My son, is all I can think. I have to find my son.
As I race into the garden, desperately searching for my blue-eyed little boy, a fellow parent turns to me, her finger pointed. The words out of her mouth make my blood run cold.
“Your son did this. This is your fault.”
Surely that can’t be true? My son can be difficult, but I’d know if he was capable of hurting someone… Wouldn’t I?
As a little girl is lifted onto a stretcher, I feel my world come crashing down. My heart cracks in two for this poor child, her devastated family. Because there’s no coming back from this. An innocent girl has been hurt. My son is being blamed. But I’m his mother, and I’ll do whatever it takes to find out what really happened…
My Review
Hewitt has such a talent for writing such compelling, thought provoking novels. This book touched on many tough subjects such as pediatric mental health, unbalanced adult relationships, marriage difficulties, what happens when you keep secrets, relationships among classmates, and how so easily influenced a pure child can be (pure meaning not tainted by the bad in the world).
In this book, we learn about Eleanor, Bella’s mother, Natalie, Freya’s mother, and Joanna, Kiernan’s mother. While none of these characters are 100% likeable, they are relatable, they are real. There are plenty of mothers who strive to make it look like everything in their family is perfect, mothers who gossip, and, in Natalie’s case, mothers who know that their child may need a diagnosis but isn’t ready to admit it to themselves just yet. Natalie is whom I related to the most. I didn’t want admit that my first son needed a diagnosis, intervention, and medicine. It took me a while to accept it, but I got there. Natalie does too.
The realness of this book is what pulled at my heartstrings. My heart was broken for Bella being hurt, but it was also broken for the other children who had to witness it and the people that it impacted. Unfortunately, sometimes, we need a tragedy to get real with one another, and that is exactly what this book shows.
So if you enjoy a compelling, riveting, heart string pulling type of book, then this book is for you.
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About the Author
Kate Hewitt is the author of many romance and women’s fiction novels. A former New Yorker and now an American ex-pat, she lives in a small town on the Welsh border with her husband, five children, and their overly affectionate Golden Retriever. Whatever the genre, she enjoys telling stories that tackle real issues and touch people’s lives.
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