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5/5 🌟

Well-written and devastatingly compelling — a story of grief no parent should face.

Tom, Rachel and their two small kids are driving home from a lunch at his parents, when Tom runs the car off the road, wanting to end it all for all of them.
Rachel survives and this is about her before and afterwards. How did it come so far and how will she be able to live on afterwards? It‘s a sad story, very well written.

📸 Sefiros, Greece

Thanks to Helen for putting on my radar!
Totally absorbing, very real and heart wrenchingly sad- but you can‘t look away.
Stellar debut novel.

#quicklunchtimeread
Thanks to @squirrelbrain for putting this book on my tbr!

We meet Rachel as she's sitting in the passenger seat of the family car. Tom, her husband, is driving. Their two young children in the back. They had been at Tom's parents that afternoon, the drive home is just routine. Or it is until her husband apologises and runs the car off the road.
This wasn't an easy read yet I could have read it in one sitting. The grief and shock represented is very real, raw and ugly to look at.

Wow - the best fiction book I‘ve read this year (should have been on the #wpf25 list).

Rachel and Tom live a seemingly normal, average life with their two kids, until the day Tom swerves his car off the road with the intention of killing himself and them.

The story veers between ‘before‘ and ‘after‘ - should Rachel have known beforehand, and how she copes afterwards.

Difficult to read but impossible to put down.