Book Details
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow (January 27, 2015)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00K53D3JC
The Description from Goodreads is as follows
An apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. So what makes Emily Coleman get up one morning and walk right out of her life to start all over again? Has she had a breakdown? Was it to escape her dysfunctional family - especially her flawed twin sister Caroline who always seemed to hate her? And what is the date that looms, threatening to force her to confront her past? No one has ever guessed her secret. Will you? The jacket description got my attention because I’m always curious about people who mysteriously leave their lives and disappear. In this case, why would Emily leave her husband and son and disappear suddenly? What had happened that was so terrible that she needed to leave her family and disappear? This book held my attention and throughout I kept trying to figure out why she would leave her child. Husband? I can understand. Husbands can be jerks and sometimes deserve to be left. But children never deserve that.
I found myself disliking Emily throughout the book. And her twin sister Caroline as well. Caroline could be described as a sociopath with mental disorders and Emily is just selfish. But towards the end of the book, I started to understand why Emily left. I wasn’t quite expecting the ending and I thought it was a great twist to a somewhat odd book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read coming of age stories or suspense stories. While it’s not a typical coming of age story or suspense story, it has elements of both and Tina Seskis does a good job of keeping the reader interested so you can start to understand Emily and the choices she made.
A copy of the book was provided for an honest review and there was not monetary compensation.