- Started: November 30, 2021
- Finished: November 30, 2021
- Pages: 276
- Single POV, Northern Ireland
- Rating: 4.75/5
- TW: Miscarriage
REVIEW + SUMMARY
This book was recommended to my husband’s aunt and I am really glad I picked it up! It’s the second book I’ve read by this author (I read A Double Life last year); I thought this one was much better. It focuses on two sisters in Northern Ireland and I find that area so fascinating. I didn’t know much about it (and honestly still don’t) but learned a lot when I visited back in 2017. I am not sure how much of this book was exaggerated and if the conflicts are still happening on such a violent but subverted level but it definitely made for a great backdrop for this thriller.
Tessa and Marian are sisters living in Northern Ireland, still dealing with the constantly looming threat of the IRA, even twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement. Tessa is primarily focused on providing a good life for her infant, Finn, but her whole world is upended when security footage from an IRA robbery shows her sister at the scene as one of the perpetrators.As Tessa reconnects with her sister she becomes swept up in a world of covert operations and espionage. She is torn between her desire to help her sister and her need to keep her son safe. Together, Tessa and Marian cross moral and legal lines in order to protect themselves from the warring factions.
Even though I did like A Double Life, this book made me want to read more by the author. I would definitely recommend for anyone interested in books about relationships between sisters or modern day espionage.
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