My review -
This
book begins when a young woman held captive for eight years, and her daughter,
fathered by her captor and abuser, manage to escape. It is bound to invite
comparison with Room. I much preferred this. Lily and her daughter, Sky, escape
when their captor makes a mistake and doesn't bolt the door. Happily ever
after? Not likely! Lily's twin, Abby and her mother, Eve, have been so deeply
affected by her disappearance that their own lives have been changed almost as
much as hers.
I
enjoyed the fact that this story began where others leave off. We gain some
insight from Lily about what happened to her in her captivity but that's not
what this story is about. It's about all the other lives touched and tainted by
the crime. Not only her family, but her abductor’s too. His wife who apparently
didn't suspect his perverse behaviour. His mother, Lily's grandparents, her
boyfriend at the time she was taken. We watch the subsequent struggle for a
normal future by people who have had a big chunk of their past stolen. I found
it totally gripping.
Thanks
to the publisher and Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
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