Token by Beverley Kendall BLOG TOUR #Token #BeverleyKendall @simonschusterUK @TeamBATC #BookReview

 

Kennedy Mitchell is brilliant, beautiful and tired of being the only Black woman in the room.

Two years ago, she was plucked from reception for a seat at the boardroom table in the name of “representation”.

Rather than play along, she and her best friend founded Token, a boutique PR agency that helps diversity-challenged companies and celebrities. 

With famous people getting into reputation-damaging controversies, Token is in high demand and business is booming, but when her ex shows up needing help repairing his reputation, things get even more complicated and soon Kennedy finds herself drawn into a PR scandal of her own.

Token by Beverley Kendall is published today, 15 February 2024 by Simon and Schuster. My thanks to the publisher who sent my copy for review as part of this Blog Tour 

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Kennedy Mitchell and her best friend Aurora. This novel is a little different to those that I'd usually pick up. However, it's been a blast. It is well written, a mix of romance, current issues, a smattering of spicy sex and a serious look at the behaviours of those who often have the most power. 

Kennedy Mitchell is from a working class background. She worked hard, gained a scholarship to an Ivy League university, came out with a first class degree and has recently been made redundant. She's passing her time working as a temporary receptionist for a large clothing company. When she is summoned to the office of the CEO, she is amazed to be offered a huge amount of money to enable the company to secure a wealthy, famous client. The company wants Kennedy to be a token. They need a black face in the meeting, someone who can prove that they are a diverse organisation, modern thinking and fair. Except, they are not. There are no Black people in senior management, and very few women work in high positions either. 

Kennedy is a woman who is devoted to  fairness and demands respect. She is committed to changing the way that organisations work. 

This episode spurs Kennedy and her white best friend Aurora to form their own agency, ironically called Token. 

Three years later and Token is going from strength to strength, albeit in a slightly different way to how the women originally imagined. Kennedy has become a respected figure, she's able to get companies out of a fix, and at the same time, she and her agency deliver diversity training, with the hope, that eventually, the glass ceiling for both women and people of colour will be smashed. 

When Aurora's billionaire tech-company owner brother Nate finds himself in the midst of a lawsuit, it is Kennedy that he approaches. Nate and Kennedy have history and it soon becomes clear that there's an attraction still simmering between them. Given this, and his relationship to Aurora, it is Kennedy's first inclination to say no, they can't help him. However, things take a different turn and Kennedy soon finds herself well entrenched in Nate's life. 

Whilst I do question some of the Kennedy's business practices, I totally understand her reason for how she worked. She's basically a good, kind woman who hates to see so many inequalities in the workplace, and is determined to make change. As a fifty-seven year old white woman, I can't personally relate to the experiences that Kennedy and many other characters in this novel experience, but my life experience has allowed me to see and hear such things happening to others, and it boils my blood. We are told that those days are gone, but in reality, we know for sure that these things happen. The author incorporates her messages into this novel so well, it's a fun read at times, a little hot at others, but always deals sensitively with the issues that arise. 

A fascinating and fun look at the world of business in New York, combined with the glamour that goes with it and the people who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Recommended. 

Beverley discovered her love of books while growing up in, the then, small city of Barrie,
Ontario Canada. 

With her love of books and romance, she always wished that everyone would find their happily ever after. 

She currently writes sexy historical, new adult and contemporary romances.  

As the mother of one too bright and mischievous young boy, she pulls full-time duty on all fronts. 

When she's not writing full-time, running The Season review website or mothering, she's probably reading or sleeping and dreaming of a time when she'll have time for her favorite hobbies: knitting, crocheting and sewing.  

Beverley has lived on two continents, in three countries, two provinces, and four states. She stopped her nomadic existence and settled in the southeast. 

All things artistic feed her creative passion, but none more than writing. 

Readers can visit her at: beverleykendall.com.

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Dark Days at the Beach House by Francesca Capaldi BLOG TOUR #DarkDaysattheBeachHouse @FCapaldiBurges @canelo_co @HeraBooks @rararesources #BookExtract #RespectRomFic

 

Can Helen save the hotel... and her reputation?

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel, now that her husband has been conscripted. 

Against all expectations, Helen and her team are doing marvellously, despite the shortages brought by war. 

Even the exacting Lady Blackmore agrees. 

But then the calm is shattered when poison pen letters are sent to prominent townsfolk and Helen finds herself the target of a police investigation. 

Is someone trying to ruin Helen, and the Beach Hotel? 

And can she rely on the handsome but taciturn Inspector Toshack to help her? 

When her husband, Douglas, is invalided out of the war he is determined to take back control of the hotel and things go from bad to worse.

How can she ever escape his bullying? Is she a fool to hope that she may have a second chance at love?

Dark Days at the Beach Hotel by Francesca Capaldi is published on 15 February by Canelo/Hera. As part of this Rachel's Random Resouces Blog Tour I am delighted to share an extract from the book with you today. 

Extract from Dark Days at the Beach Hotel by Francesca Capaldi

Helen Bygrove, the manageress of the Beach Hotel, now her husband has been conscripted, is on the front desk, when a couple of her regular, but annoying customers enter, signalling the beginning of future trouble.

‘Good morning, Lady Blackmore, Miss Cecelia.’

‘Ah, Mrs Bygrove, I am so glad that you are on duty today.’ Her ladyship strode to the desk, a black umbrella hooked over the arm of her coat. Cecelia trotted behind, limping a little.

‘What can I do for you, my lady?’

Was this going to be some complaint about the decline of standards, or about there being less choice of fancies with coffee? Or, alternatively, a comment about what a shame it was that Douglas had been conscripted, and how on earth was she managing without him? Such comments from guests had been rife after he’d been sent away in June. They had dwindled over the summer, thankfully. However, these remarks had started up again after Douglas had been home on leave in the middle of September. 

But Lady Blackmore had so far said nothing of the sort in the four months he’d been away, training at the Shoreham-by-Sea camp.

Her ladyship reached the desk. 'I was just saying to Cecelia here, how well the place has been run since Mr Bygrove went away, wasn’t I, Cecelia?’

‘You were, my lady.’

‘Not that it was poorly run before, of course. But I was not very hopeful that you would be able to carry on without your husband. However, I have to say that, despite the increasing shortages, if anything, things seem more organised. And we don’t get him in the conservatory every few days, fawning over those he deems to be important.’

‘Lady Blackmore – ’ Cecelia started, in a slightly cautionary tone.

‘No, Cecelia, I will say my piece. Despite my title, Mr Bygrove clearly considers me insignificant. You on the other hand, Mrs Bygrove, treat all the guests with equal importance. And you are doing an excellent job.’

Helen was stumped for a few seconds. Was Lady Blackmore suffering a bump on the head, or early signs of senile dementia?

‘Well, um, thank you, my lady. I’m lucky to have a very dedicated staff.’ 

‘Yes, I agree. I was sceptical when the men started to enlist and women took over their posts, but, I have to admit, they’re doing an equally good job. If not better, in some cases. Is that not right, Cecelia?’

‘It is, my lady.’

‘I cannot help but agree about the women,’ said Helen.

‘I did not think that anyone could do as good a job of head waiter as poor old Günther, or Mr Smithson who followed him.’ said her ladyship. ‘But Lili has filled their shoes admirably.’

The doors opened once more. This time Helen’s heart really did sink.

It was Isabella Harvey, a friend of Douglas’s from the tennis and bowls club. She owned Selborne Place Guest House, an establishment two roads back from South Terrace, and was someone for whom Helen had little regard. She was certain the woman felt the same about her.

Unlike Lady Blackmore, Miss Harvey, despite being in her mid-forties, was now up to date with her couture, though it had not always been the case. Her navy-blue suit, with its ankle-length, full skirt and flared jacket with a high waist was very stylish, as was the saucer brimmed hat on her fair hair.

‘Oh dear, not her,’ muttered Lady Blackmore. ‘How tiresome she is.’

Helen noticed Cecelia look down and half smile. 

‘Good morning to you, Lady Blackmore,’ Miss Harvey pronounced effusively. She ignored Cecelia completely.

The answering, ‘Good morning,’ was said rather stiffly.

‘I don’t suppose you approve of the tennis courts being dug up any more than I, especially as you live nearby on South Terrace.’

Not this again. Both Lili Probert and Phoebe Sweeton, had reported this complaint from Miss Harvey on several occasions after she’d been in for either morning coffee or afternoon tea.

‘I think it was a jolly good idea. And Cecelia agrees, don’t you, Cecelia.’

‘Yes, my lady, for it’s – ’

‘What Cecelia was no doubt about to say is that the gardeners have done a splendid job of planting up a vegetable garden, which, I am sure, will be needed by the hotel with the current shortages, which, I am certain, will only get worse.’

‘That’s right,’ said Helen, determined to have her say. ‘The vegetables we grow there have been a boon to the hotel.’

‘And why, for goodness sake, would anyone be wasting their time playing tennis when there is work to be done towards the war effort,’ said Lady Blackmore. ‘I, myself, am now on several committees for raising funds for various good causes. And what encouraged me was Mrs Bygrove’s excellent example, with all the charity events she has organised here at the hotel.’

‘I think you’ll find that Mr Bygrove organised those,’ said Miss Harvey, looking smug.

Douglas would have told her that, and no doubt everyone else in his little golf, tennis and bowls groups.

‘No no! I have it on good authority, from Miss Sophia Perryman no less, who runs the committees I’m on, that it was Mrs Bygrove here who organised them. Is that not right?’

She turned to Helen, who felt she had temporarily replaced Cecelia.

‘Yes, that is correct, my lady. Douglas, my husband, trusted me to arrange things.’

She’d added the last bit in case it got back to him. She was convinced that Miss Harvey was writing to him. It was generally thought, among the staff, that she had a crush on him. They didn’t know she knew, but she’d overheard Fanny Bullen and Gertie Green joking about it once to some of the others. It wasn’t as if she hadn’t suspected it herself. In fact, she had wondered, on more than one occasion, whether there was more to it.

Francesca has enjoyed writing since she was a child, largely influenced by a Welsh mother who was good at improvised story telling. 

Writing under both her maiden name, Francesca Capaldi, and her married name, Francesca Burgess, she is the author of historical novels, short stories and several pocket novels. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. 

The first novel in the Wartime in the Valleys series, Heartbreak in the Valleys, was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Historical Award 2021. Both the Valleys series and the Beach Hotel series are published by Hera Books.

Francesca was born and brought up on the Sussex coast, but currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrission.

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Library for the War-Wounded by Monika Helfer - translated by Gillian Davidson #LibraryForTheWarWounded @BloomsburyBooks #MonikaHelfer #TranslatedFiction #BookReview

 

From Monika Helfer's award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time.

'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. Though he seemed to come from nowhere.'

Josef was an illegitimate child, a charity case from Salzburg, schooled by a benefactor. He was drafted to fight in the Second World War while still at school and sent to Russia, returning with only one leg. He married his nurse, and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a home for injured soldiers, a strangely suspended, deeply isolated place with a remarkable library.

He was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter, Monika, none was greater than his obsession with these cloistered, crumbling books, his great treasure and secret amidst a country barrelling away from the memory of war.

Beautifully written, restrained, and memorable, Library for the War-Wounded turns a real life into great literature by confronting the universal question: Who are our parents, really?

Library for the War-Wounded by Monika Helfer, translated by Gillian Davidson is published on 15 February 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing.  My thanks to the publisher who sent my copy for review. 

I am a huge fan of translated fiction, I usually read translated crime but have also come across some very special books in other genre. Library for the War-Wounded is fiction, but based on the author's own family. It is beautifully translated into English by Gillian Davidson. The writing is spare yet so lyrical, and the characters almost jump from the pages. 

The lead character is Josef, the father of Monika and her siblings. Josef was an illegitimate child who grew up in Salzberg, and despite being brought up by his single mother, with little money, he always had access to books. 

Josef was seriously injured in World War One, losing a leg, but at the same time, finding a wife. He married his nurse and they moved their family to the Austrian Alps. Josef became the manager of a home for the war-wounded, allowing a place of peace and comfort to those soldiers so badly injured during the fighting. Josef's love of books never left him and he built up an extraordinary library within the home; not that the residents really cared about the books, but for Josef this was his sanctuary. 

Monika narrates her story in an unusual way. The reader is taken back and forth, from the days when Josef first met his wife, to the present time, after his death. Monika always felt that her father was a mysterious man, with no past to tell them about. His ideas were forward thinking, but it becomes clear that he had many emotional difficulties. After the death of their mother, Josef's children were scattered far and wide, cared for by different family members and they saw and heard very little of him. When Josef eventually re-married, he gathered his family together, to make a new start. 

This is a short novel of just under two hundred pages, and the stye and structure of the story lends itself to being read in large chunks. It's not the sort of novel to read a page or two here and there, it needs as much investment from the reader as has been given by the author, and also the fabulous translator. 

The reader also gets to know other members of the family, and these characters add colour to what could be more of a musing by the author. There's Aunt Irma who acts as a stand in for their mother and Uncle Sepp, the man who confounds his family by marrying a prostitute. These outlying characters enhance Monika's story so much, confirming that this is no ordinary family at all. 

How many of us really know our parents? Who they were, why they became the adults that they ended up as. Do we always choose our own path? Are our parents always a guiding light, or are they more of a mystery?

A book to savour, not to be rushed, and one that conjures up images and questions of us all. Recommended. 

Monika Helfer is the bestselling author of novels, short stories, and children's books,
including, most recently, Löwenherz (Lionheart), Vati (Daddy), and Die Bagage (Last House Before the Mountain). 

She lives in Hohenems, Austria.

Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. 

Born and brought up in Scotland, she studied French and German at Edinburgh University, spending a year at Würzburg University in South Germany. 

After working in Austria for six months, she returned to London to work in the finance office of a German company. 

She then spent most of her career working as an accountant in the UK public sector. 

Now retired, she enjoys devoting herself to her love of languages, adding Spanish to her repertoire. 

 

The Happiest Ever After by Milly Johnson #TheHappiestEverAfter @millyjohnson @simonschusterUK #Competition #Prize #Win #Giveaway

 

Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the ­fictional Sabrina Anderson.

But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?

After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.

But what if this new life could belong to her after all?

The Happiest Ever After by Milly Johnson is published in hardback on 15 February 2024 by Simon and Schuster.
I adore Milly's novels and always eagerly await her newest. You can read my review of this on here on Random Things 

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'Gloriously funny, witty, wise and wonderful, this book is a total joy!’ Alexandra Potter

‘A delicious warm hug of a book’ Jill Mansell

‘Guaranteed to put a spring in your step – I loved it’ Jo Thomas

'Gorgeous, heartwarming and moving, The Happiest Ever After is so original and brilliantly written in the typically funny and clever Johnson style' Lucy Vine

'An escapist, uplifting read full of heart' Libby Page

‘Funny and brilliant and gorgeously warm, Milly Johnson always, always delivers’ Paige Toon

'Takes you on a classic transformative journey in the most wonderful and original way. What a joy!' Julietta Henderson

Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 

A Sunday Times bestseller, she is one of the Top 10 Female Fiction authors in the UK, and has sold millions of copies of her books sold across the world. 

The Happiest Ever After is her twenty-first novel.    

Milly's writing highlights the importance of community spirit and the magic of kindness. Her books inspire and uplift but she packs a punch and never shies away from the hard realities of life and the complexities of relationships in her stories. 

Her books champion women, their strength and resilience, and celebrate love, friendship and the possibility and joy of second chances and renaissances.

www.millyjohnson.co.uk

In Her Shadow by Emma Christie #InHerShadow @theemmachristie @welbeckpublish @CaledoniaCrime @feliciah_33 #BookReview

 

Dave Kellock is a pillar of the community in Portobello, Edinburgh. A tireless volunteer who never misses a chance to help others, he's just been recognised on the King's Honours List.

Dave Kellock is also a fraud. A moment of panic, violence and blood twenty years ago plagues his dreams. He's been hiding himself in Portobello, terrified that his past will catch up with him. Now that his photo has been in the paper, collecting his award, the truth won't stay buried for long.

Someone is watching Dave, at every turn, even making calls from within his own house and bringing the police to his door. The clock is ticking – he needs to find who's behind this before the police find him.

When a local teenage girl goes missing, Dave is suddenly a suspect and not only is his freedom in jeopardy but her life is too. Will he find this girl? And just how is she linked to the secret he's been keeping all these years?

In Her Shadow by Emma Christie is published on 15 February 2024 by Welbeck. My thanks to the publisher who sent my copy for review.

I don't think that I've read a crime novel where the lead character is a bus driver before. Dave Kellock is not just any bus driver, he is also a great man. Voted locally as an outstanding citizen, he's always in work early, he always cleans his own bus. On the whole, he's an all round nice guy. 

However, Dave has a past. He recently returned to his home city of Edinburgh after many years away in exile. He left after the tragedy that has blighted his life ever since. He's a loner, he's very tidy, he keeps himself to himself. His elderly mother has died, and he lives alone in his childhood home. 

It feels like just another day, just another driving shift for Dave, until he sees a woman get on his bus. Dave is shocked and just a little bit terrified when he sees the face of the woman that he killed twenty years ago. From this point on, Dave's life spirals out of control, and the reader is faced with as many questions as Dave is. 

Emma Christie brings Edinburgh, and especially the Portobello district to life in her writing. The reader really gets a fabulous sense of place, as we follow Dave across the city in his quest to find out more about the woman that he saw. 

It's a complex plot, that took a few turns that I really didn't expect. The story deals with grief and with guilt so very well, it's not a typical 'killer' story by any means, the reader slowly and surely learns more about Dave, and his past as the plot unravels. Accompanied by some very well drawn characters - Crystal was one of my favourites - this story will keep you turning the pages well into the night. Trying to pre-empt where the author is taking you doesn't work, the revelations and the finale are unexpected and expertly handled. 

At times emotional and powerful, this is crime fiction with a heart. Characters to cheer for in a setting that is quite gloriously created. I enjoyed this one very much. Recommended. 

Emma Christie was born and raised in a book-filled house in Cumnock, an Ayrshire coal-mining town. 

She spent five years working as a news reporter with one of the UK's top-selling regional daily newspapers, The Press and Journal. 

She lives in Barcelona with her partner, Maria Jose, and their campervan, Jarry. 

Emma can be found across social media at @theemmachristie and at emmachristiewriter.com

A Sign Of Her Own by Sarah Marsh #ASignOfHerOwn @SarahCMarsh @TinderPress @RandomTTours #BookReview

 

Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell.

Ellen knows immediately what Bell really wants from her. Ellen is deaf, and for a time was Bell's student in a technique called Visible Speech. As he instructed her in speaking, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device which would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants Ellen to speak up in support of his claim to the patent to the telephone, which is being challenged by rivals.

But Ellen has a different story to tell: that of how Bell betrayed her, and other deaf pupils, in pursuit of ambition and personal gain, and cut Ellen off from a community in which she had come to feel truly at home. It is a story no one around Ellen seems to want to hear - but there may never be a more important time for her to tell it.

A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh was published on 1 February 2024 by Tinder Press. My thanks to the publisher who sent my copy as part of this #RandomThingsTours Blog Tour. 

A Sign of Her Own is a rich and vibrant novel that explores another side of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, narrated by fictional Ellen Lark in her own special words. 

Told in two time lines, we meet Ellen as she prepares for a meeting with her old mentor Bell. Ellen is about to be married, and Bell wants her to support him in his fight for recognition as the inventor of the telephone. However, Ellen has only bad memories about the time she was under Bell's instructions, she remembers who she and others in the deaf community were betrayed. How Bell was desperate for fame and fortune and how she and her peers became a useful plaything for him. 

The reader learns how Ellen lost her hearing due to Scarlet Fever when she was just four years old. Her mother encouraged her to use sign language; signs that they made up along the way. Whilst Ellen seemed to thrive, her paternal grandmother Adeline became convinced that she should study Visible Speech as advocated by Bell. The family were in debt to Adeline and Ellen was sent off to Bell's school whilst her mother went to England, where she re-married. 

Bell's pupils are discouraged from using sign language and must communicate using only Visible Speech, and notebooks. Whilst Ellen does learn quickly, she's a bright and astute young woman who soon becomes unsure of Bell and his methods. Ellen feels vulnerable in the hearing world and when she meets Frank McKinney, a deaf man, her worries are confirmed. 

Marsh takes the reader back and forth throughout the novel, and I have to admit that at times, this was a little confusing. However, once familiar with the structure of the novel it all flows quite well. 

The later era in the novel is concerned with Bell's fight to patent the telephone and his attempts to get Ellen on board. For her to support him in his quest.  Bell comes across as quite an extraordinary character, determined and a workaholic, his teachings and inventions can only enhance life for millions, yet it is not other people who are his main concern. As Ellen is told; Bell sees people, but only people, he doesn't appreciate individuals or consider their personal needs. 

A Sign of Her Own is a wonderful and eye opening look into the life of deaf people. It exposes the vulnerability of living in a noisy hearing world, surrounded by people, yet feeling alone and lonely. The controversy about whether sign language should be used, or whether deaf people should be made to communicate via other way is fascinating and something that I had not heard of before. 

This is a novel written with passion and authority that exposes many issues. Ellen is an amazing character, finely detailed and so easy to empathise with. Recommended by me. 

Sarah Marsh was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish prize in 2019 and selected for the
London Library Emerging Writers programme in 2020.

A Sign of Her Own is her first novel, inspired by her experiences of growing up deaf and her family's history of deafness.

She lives in London.

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Every Smile You Fake by Dorothy Koomson #Giveaway @DorothyKoomson @headlinepg #Prize #Win #Competition

 

Please take care of my baby. But don't try to find me. You'll put him in danger. x

Profiler and therapist Kez Lanyon is shocked when she finds a baby on the backseat of her car, with an unsigned note asking her to take care of him.

Kez has a pretty good idea who the mother is - Brandee, a popular social media star with a troubled background, who once lived in Kez's house.

Brandee recently dropped out of the limelight and if the internet rumours are true, Kez knows Brandee's life is in danger.

Kez is torn. Should she simply take care of the baby as she's been asked, or should she risk her whole family by using contacts from her previous job to save this young woman?

Time is running out for Brandee. Can Kez find her before it's too late?

This is the heart-stopping new novel from The Queen Of The Big Reveal.

Every Smile You Fake by Dorothy Koomson is published in hardback by Headline on 15 February 2024. You can read my review of the book on Random Things here 

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Praise for Dorothy Koomson

A brilliant rollercoaster of a thriller about obsessive love and hidden secrets. Tense, twisty and unputdownable -- Claire Douglas

The very definition of a page-turner, it's suburban noir at its finest -- Harriet Tyce

Just like Desperate Housewives, but even darker and more devious ― Woman & Home

An expertly-crafted rollercoaster of a novel that had me gripped from the beginning -- Jendella Benson

Queen of the killer hook line and master of the jaw-dropping twist ― S Magazine

Another delightfully twisty thriller from the Queen of the Big Reveal ― Heat

Koomson hooks us from the very first page ― Refinery29

Another superb thriller from one of our favourite authors ― Bella

Dark and compelling . . . prepare for revelations aplenty! ― Fabulous

Written with verve and insight ― Stylist

DOROTHY KOOMSON is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist
whose books have been translated into more than 30 languages, with sales that exceed 2 million copies in the UK alone.

Her third novel, My Best Friend's Girl (2006) was selected for the Richard & Judy Summer Reads Book Club, while a TV adaptation based on The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV1 in 2013.

Dorothy was featured on the 2021 Powerlist as one of the most influential Black people in Britain and appeared in GQ Style as a Black British trailblazer.

She loves reading and writing, and is passionate about supporting other writers no matter what stage they are at in their career.

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