5*
When Rachel Croft wakes up on her family’s boat in Bermuda, it’s to sunshine and yet another perfect day…until she goes to wake her seven-year-old son, Oscar. Because the worst thing imaginable has happened. He isn’t there.
In the dark and desperate days that follow, Rachel struggles to navigate her grief. And while her husband, James, wants them to face the tragedy together, Rachel feels that the life they once shared is over. Convinced that their happy marriage is now a sham, and unable to remain in the place where she lost her son, she goes home to Bristol alone.
Only when she starts receiving letters from Cee-Cee, her housekeeper in Bermuda, does light begin to return to Rachel’s soul. She and James both want to learn to live again—but is it too late for them to find a way through together?
What a tragic and heartbreaking tale of loss, that in some places is almost too much to bare.
Rachel and her Husband are so believable and relatable that this novel runs true to life, and highlights the issue that many people have to deal with.
Sensitively handled but no less sad for it, I went through every emotion following this upsetting but hopeful plot.
The setting on the boat is isolating and brightens considerably when Rachel moves to England, despite the bleak weather.
The characters are prefect, so human and all at once likeable but annoying.
The plot is unbearable but compelling, very sad.
Amanda Prowse does it again with this book, highly recommended.
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