My first thoughts on starting reading to read this
book, after the first few pages were “do I have to continue?”, not because I didn’t
want to read this, I did! It sounded
right up my street, but because the opening pages were not what I expected to
read.
Once I read a quarter of the book (my cut off point
as to whether to continue) I realised why the writer / author wrote as she did
and set the scene as it’s set.
Shona and Valentina are friends, they met through
their children after Shona visits a nursery with her daughter Isla, upon moving
to a rural cottage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland with her partner Michael (Mikey) who
works away on the oil rigs, on a rotating shift of two weeks on / two weeks
off. Valentina is a mysterious woman,
married to a man (that Shona never gets to meet) and they also have a son, who
is the same age as Isla, Shona’s daughter.
Shona is happy and excited to have made a friend, as she is lonely after
moving into the remote cottage, but then things start to happen which makes her
question the friendship.
This is a book that once I finished, had me
thinking about friendships / relationships and the hidden depths people go to!
This book makes you think, makes you question the
things that can and do happen in relationships.
The lengths some people go to, to keep / get what they want.
My thanks go to S E Lynes for contacting me and asking
would I like to review this book. I am
so glad I did. I
look forward to reading more by this author. I would also like to the
publishers Blackbird Digital Books.
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