A fresh start where no-one knows her name is exactly what Catie is looking
for from her Sicilian escape.
When Catie meets handsome Giancarlo, she has stumbled across a love that
could last forever… If only she can admit the truth about her past.
But the scars of betrayal from her broken marriage and fragile family are
only part of the story.
Some secrets are too devastating to share…
Susan Lewis is the internationally bestselling author of fifty books across the genres of family drama, thriller,
suspense and crime, including I Have Something To Tell You, One Minute Later, My Lies, Your Lies and Forgive Me.
Susan’s novels have sold over three million copies in the UK alone. She is also the author of Just One More Day and One Day at a Time, the moving memoirs of her childhood in Bristol during the 1960s.
Susan has previously worked as a secretary in news and
current affairs before training as a production assistant
working on light entertainment and drama. She’s lived in
Hollywood and the South of France, but now resides in Gloucestershire with husband James, two stepsons and dog, Mimi.
This is a different read for me to usual. I really enjoyed it. The pace was slow but there was enough tension from the beginning of would she/wouldn’t she go and just what had she done?
Catie has been in prison and she goes to a new place determined to write her story and start again. She meets Giancarlo when she arrives and they strike up a gradual friendship and Catie thinks she’s found someone to trust.
Giancarlo keeps disappearing and Catie needs to know what the reason is. The suspense and romance between the two build throughout the book and it’s a book that you need to commit to spending a little time with.
I didn’t tear through it as it felt like a book I needed to savour and enjoy slowly. This was brilliant pacing by Susan Lewis. I’m sure she could have written something much more fast paced but entirely forgettable. This isn’t. It’s a novel to make you think about people, new starts and secrets. Very much a recommendation from me if you’re interested in a slow burner of a book. Perfect summer reading.
With thanks to Anne Cater, the publisher and the author for the advanced reading copy of this book.
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