Should she give Adam another chance? Did he cheat? Why? Is it okay to sometimes resent her difficult, challenging daughter? Does it make her a bad person? A bad mother? Mina needs the break to get her thoughts and feelings in order. When Mina wasn’t picked to work the London/Sydney flight, she didn’t tell Adam and instead swapped schedules with another flight attendant she needed the trip and time away from Adam and Sophia to figure out how to move forward. Her connection to Mina is intense and obsessive, while Adam struggles to hold Sophia’s attention or affection for any length of time. Adam is desperate for them to reconcile – and life as a single parent with their adopted daughter Sophia is challenging due to her attachment disorder. Despite his adamant insistence they were never lovers, Mina kicked him out. You not deserve crap like this,” Mina is convinced her husband Adam had an affair with her and that it ended badly. After their beloved nanny abruptly quit and walked out shortly after saying “You are nice woman. At work, Mina is focused and attentive to the needs of her passengers, but at home, she’s convinced her life is spinning out of her control. Mina, one of our narrators, is a flight attendant working on a highly publicized inaugural flight from London to Sydney. I realize I’ve already gotten a bit ahead in my opening salvo, so let me backtrack a bit without spoiling the story for you. And once the author started to unravel all the threads, I just found myself frustrated with her answers. But the big reveal was such a dud! I recognize others might identify more strongly with this story for Reasons – but unfortunately, it just didn’t work for me. I was invested in the principal characters and the parallel plot lines converging as the novel progressed. Her latest offering, Hostage, starts off gangbusters. Unfortunately, it set the standard for every Mackintosh novel I’ve read since, and the author has never achieved the same magical alchemy of suspense/story/characters and gotcha! twist of her début.

Clever, surprising, and moving, it satisfies on so many levels. Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go is one of the books I recommended most frequently.

But as Anna digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her. Now with a young baby herself, she feels her mother's absence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. Their daughter Anna is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide. Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives one seemingly unable to live without the other. 'The stunning new novel from Clare Mackintosh, the international bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You.

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