When she receives a friend request, she is careful to look at the profile to make sure it’s the right kind of person she wants to be sharing things with. She doesn’t want to know what they say, but, as if a magnet is pulling at her, she cannot resist, cannot stop herself from glancing down, from seeing the words. The story rewinds back some five weeks prior to the events coming to a head with Andrea having moved with her husband Terry and 3 year old son Jack into the damp ridden house that really wasn't fit for living in. The back passenger door opens and she squints, trying to see inside, frozen where she is standing, her muscles tense. Grabbed me from the start… Just when I thought it was going one way, BAM, it went another way all together!

She leans over the box marked towels and, using the box cutter in her hand, slices it open, sighing as she confronts a selection of towels that would better suit the garbage bin than her bathroom. She's pleasant and warm, and Maggie wanders back to her house thinking she might have made a new friend. Andy is married to Tom and they have a three-year-old son and she is also pregnant with their second child. It really does make you think how life can change so quickly and different decisions can change a life.

Her husband made some mistakes, so they’ve moved into an older, worn-down place that doesn’t feel like a home. Yesterday he told her to ‘stay out of my bloody room,’ and she quickly and firmly replied, ‘Don’t use that language with me, young man, and if the room is tidy, I will stay out of it. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Jack looks just like his father, right down to the dimple on his cheek, but he has a more serious nature.

Jack should have been at pre-school today but he had a slight temperature this morning, so she couldn’t send him. The author assumes that readers don't understand innuendos because she states what each one means right after one, just in case we haven't understood it. I didn’t want the kids to eat on it so they wouldn’t drop any food or drink on the lovely leather and now it’s gone the same way the last sofa did, out the door and into the rubbish,’ she said with a sad laugh. It feels like this will never end,’ she told Andrea only yesterday, as she sent through the latest batch of photos – one of which was of her brand-new leather sofa floating out of the living room double doors.A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout.

I have hidden the truth from eight-year-old Riley, my little boy who loves climbing trees and always has scraped knees. And she’s tried forcing herself to show her teeth for photographs, but she always feels like she looks ridiculous. The Stay-At-Home Mother' discusses some topics that may trigger some readers or may not be suitable for others.It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. With secrets and lies being the backdrop of this story, there are some twists that happen in rather quick succession, leading to what will most certainly be a difficult and painful showdown. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. He shares Terry’s light blue eyes and chestnut brown hair, so different to her own plain brown eyes and dead-straight mousey brown hair.

We have more than most people do,’ Terry said last night and she wanted to agree with him because everything will be easier if she can just convince herself of this. A close reader will be able to see what she’s really saying, but she doesn’t want to be too obvious. When I found out I was completely shocked which is a huge achievement as Ive read so many books so it is harder and harder to shock me so another HUGE congratulations Nicole!I like to point this out ahead of time in my reviews so you can judge if this book is for you or not.