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Read April 2021
Holy twisty Batman!
Claire believes that her marriage to Alfie is perfect and happy, except for her lack of a baby - despite trying! Little does she know that everything about Alfie is a front. From the very moment they met he has been playing her. She has money - her father is a wealthy estate agent owner - and money makes life easier. He has also had a vasectomy so children were never going to be an issue, for him at least. Things are dull and he wants out. He has a plan for his wife to disappear using an alter ego but then Claire vanishes on her own first...
Alfie was never going to be a likeable person but I confess I wasn't fond of Claire either, she was very obsessed with having a baby but she didn't have much of a personality beyond that. There were a couple of plot points around Claire that weren't really gone into in any depth as well. I thought her mother dying of a drug overdose was going to be a bigger thing. Also I expected more detail about an incident mentioned after Claire's reappearance, regarding a work colleague - spoiler free.
I loved the final third, my jaw dropped when I realised for definite what was going on. Although I did think that the final couple of chapters made for quite a weak ending comparitively.
4/5 stars
Stef Out x
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