- Started: December 9, 2021
- Finished: December 14, 2021
- Pages: 352
- Single POV, Timeline Jumps, UK
- Rating: 4.5/5
REVIEW + SUMMARY
This was a slow book for me to get into. I’m don’t know if I was just distracted or if it was the actual cadence of the book (probably a bit of both), but this took me a while to get through. It is billed as a thriller, which isn’t completely inaccurate as the focus is on a missing child and there is a general sense of foreboding throughout, but there’s not a ton of action. It is a very sweet story, in its own way, as we see the relationship between Dee and Felicity develop.
Dee is a nanny to Felicity, the selectively mute daughter of Nick, a Master at Oxford. Over the course of her time with Felicity, Dee becomes very attached to her and disheartened by how Felicity is treated by Nick and his new wife, Mariah. Neither are abusive or even mean, but they do not have the time or energy to give Felicity the care she needs. Or at least that’s how Dee explains it to the detectives interrogating her after Felicity goes missing. Nick is convinced that Dee has something to do with it – a point she vehemently denies – which is part of how she landed in the room with the detectives. And so, hat’s where most of the story takes place: them asking her questions and her answering and internally reflecting on all the little events that led them there.
If you like a slower paced thriller, perhaps like Julia Heaberlin’s “novels of suspense,” I think you would like this book. Overall, I did enjoy and the focus it took on the relationships of the various characters. The book did not end on the clearest note and I would love to learn where all the characters ended up in five to ten years.
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