In fact, the whole book tends to lull you into a false sense of security and then BAM there’s a crazy twist, followed later by yet another one.

It holds photos; addresses; important information I might one day need and hadn’t thought to save else- where. Most police officers had one – it’s why you had to turn a blind eye to some of the jokes bandied about the canteen – but perhaps Kate was different. The pain of a mother, who in a split second let’s go of her son’s hand as he crosses the road, is one that will haunt her for the rest of her life, along with those impacted by this horrific accident.

In a year or so he would know her as well as he knew the rest of the team, but he hadn’t quite sussed her out yet. The characters were described in detail so you got the picture of how they thought and who they were as people.

She starts to drive them both home and he becomes aggressive and insists they swap seats, even though he is drunk. The introduction of Patrick, Jenna’s potential love interest, offers some light in this mostly dark tale.Vivid storytelling with persuasive characters and a schemingly intelligent narrative - and one prize-winning plot-twist - S. Sees the dark shadow form beneath his head and hears her own wail as though it comes from someone else.

Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. We have published a new cookies policy, which you should read to find out more about the cookies we use. Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies.

Clare Mackintosh’s poignant narrative grabs you from the very beginning with the story of a mother whose entire world shatters when her five-year-old son decided to race her home. Staying in a remote cottage, the silence – in her head – is deafening as the past comes back to haunt her. My vision blurs and I can’t read the words, but I don’t need to—I’ve seen a version of this article in every paper I’ve passed today. The bitter-cold weather of the coast coupled with Jenna’s melancholic perspective, set a somber tone that makes her brokenness palpable. This scene in particular hit a little too close to home for me, as the victim of the hit and run is the same age as my own son.

I loved the layout of the book, with chapters alternating between the police investigation into the accident and Jenna's story. For a while events really transform her in a chrysalis t I had read other reviews so I persevered with the long prose on the Welsh coastline and the book changed direction in part 2.If you’ve read and liked Paula Hawkins’ ‘The Girl on the Train,’ which was excellent, you’ll like this too.