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Resolutions are made
Marriages are broken…
It started with the party…
Frankie, Verity and Alice live in the idyllic Cotswolds community of White Fir Lake, but behind closed doors everyone has a secret they’re desperately trying to keep…
And ended with a bang!
Now, as midnight on New Year’s Eve approaches, the three women will face the consequences of a long-ago holiday, one which changed their lives forever … and threatens to shatter their perfect worlds into perfect pieces.
Review
A different seasonal read.
Despite the title of the book it's obviously only one night, so the main story begins early in the month but also stretches back to events many years ago too.
Three characters Frankie, Verity and Alice take turns telling us the tale. I did not like the exact same dialogue being repeated as the story was told from the different point of view. I also got a little confused with the same scene being repeated when the action had moved on and I had too. I was soon back on track though.
There's not much to like about any of the three women. One leads a privileged life, another aspires to the same life. She is holding on to the coat tails of her friend, having just made the move to an idyllic village across the lake from her. The third is not even on the starting blocks but she wants their lives more and more, in fact she thinks she's entitled to that kind of life.
To begin with the story reads like one of the reality TV shows with housewives. Then notes begin to arrive hinting that someone knows something that happened in the past and it's time to face the truth.
An intriguing read. There were a few ways it could go and my mind changed throughout as to which way that would be. Not an edge of your seat read but a nice change from Christmas novels.
I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. My thanks to netgalley for the ARC to review.
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