Published by Quercus,
27 July 2017.
ISBN: 978-1-78648-303-4
27 July 2017.
ISBN: 978-1-78648-303-4
On the way to work with her friend
Sadie, Jess is given a bunch of flowers by a man who introduces himself as Lee.
He heard her verbally attacking another man who had been groping her as they
got off the train and admired her for it. Lee then asks her out and she accepts.
The next day Jess has a shock when
she receives a post on Facebook dated eighteen months in the future and
supposedly from her friend Sadie. It says R.I.P. and so sorry that she is gone.
When she rings Sadie she denies it and on looking at her computer says there is
nothing there. Things get worse as more and more people post the same kind of
messages including one from her dad. Everyone is devastated. When she tries to
show Sadie they all disappear, she is momentarily relieved, but they reappear
when she is on her own again.
We then learn that Jess was only
fifteen years old when her mother died of cancer and it lead to her having a
mental breakdown and being admitted to a psychiatric ward. Could her mind be
playing tricks on her again and it is all a figment of her imagination?
She goes out with Lee and they hit
if off immediately. Now the posts get more intense. They start to show pictures
of her wedding to Lee and then of a little boy H, who she apparently gives
birth to the following year. Now she is really spooked especially when her and
Lee do get married. She falls in love with the dear little baby and when the
posts keep on even more about her dying and suggesting it's not an accident,
she starts to believe them.
Can she find out what actually happens
and try and prevent it or would that mean that H would never be born at all?
She decides she will do anything to make sure he does exist, even if it means
sacrificing her own life.
I enjoyed this book immensely, it’s
such an unusual story line. I found it very creepy and at times very moving. It
was hard to put down as everything the posts' forecast slowly start to happen.
The tension mounts and mounts. Will she prevent her death, will H be born? I
really couldn't decide for sure until all was revealed.
I don't go on Facebook, and this
story has put me off for ever!
Highly recommended for those who
like something exciting and a bit different.
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Reviewer: Tricia Chappell
Linda Green was born in North London in
1970 and brought up in Hertfordshire At sixteen she embarked on 'A' levels and
a journalism course at De Havilland College, Hertfordshire. She joined her
local newspaper, the Enfield Gazette, as a trainee reporter at eighteen. During
a ten-year career in regional journalism She worked as a reporter on the
Birmingham Daily News, news editor on the Birmingham Metro News and Chief Feature
Writer on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, winning Highly Commended in the
Feature Writer of the Year category of the 1997 Press Gazette Regional Press
Awards. Although she loved working on regional newspapers by 1998 her features
were getting too long and the urge to write a novel had become too great so she
left her staff job to write her first novel and work as a freelance journalist.
She has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Times
Educational Supplement, The Big Issue, Wanderlust and Community Care Magazine. She
found the writing and working from home a very solitary process so also worked
as co-ordinator of the Birmingham Bureau of Children's Express (a national
charity which ran a learning through journalism programme for young people) and
taught journalism to schoolchildren for the National Academy of Writing. After she
moved north in 2001 she qualified as an adult education tutor and taught
creative writing classes to students aged between 18 and 82 for the Workers
Educational Association across Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
After more than a hundred rejections from agents for her first novel she finally got an agent but still couldn't get a publisher. She started work on her second novel I Did A Bad Thing in 2003 and finally obtained a two-book deal with Headline Review in 2006. Massive sigh of relief! After six years with Headline She left to join Quercus in 2011. Her current novel While My Eyes Were Closed was published in ebook in January 2016 and paperback in May 2016.
Linda Green lives in a village near Halifax , West Yorkshire. She is married to Ian Hodgson, a sports photographer for a national newspaper.
After more than a hundred rejections from agents for her first novel she finally got an agent but still couldn't get a publisher. She started work on her second novel I Did A Bad Thing in 2003 and finally obtained a two-book deal with Headline Review in 2006. Massive sigh of relief! After six years with Headline She left to join Quercus in 2011. Her current novel While My Eyes Were Closed was published in ebook in January 2016 and paperback in May 2016.
Linda Green lives in a village near Halifax , West Yorkshire. She is married to Ian Hodgson, a sports photographer for a national newspaper.
Tricia Chappell. I have a
great love of books and reading, especially crime and thrillers. I play the
occasional game of golf (when I am not reading). My great love is
cruising especially to far flung places, when there are long days at sea for
plenty more reading! I am really enjoying reviewing books and have found lots
of great new authors.
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