I received a free copy of this book from Penguin Ireland exchange for an honest review.

At the start of this story, Delia wakes up in her apartment that also contains a rotting dead body. The readers are then transported backwards to the start of Delia’s life as the favoured child on an isolated island off the coast of Ireland.

This was an engrossing read from start to finish. This is a thriller but not one of those thrillers that leaves you turning the pages with your heart in your throat. Instead it sucks you in, deeper and deeper as more and more of Delia’s character and decisions are revealed and we have to make a choice about her - is she a sociopath with a lot of selfish, evil tendencies? Or is she someone who was forced into living a life she never wanted, and just a weird stroke of bad fortune fell on those around her?

I loved learning more about Delia, and I loved how conflicted I felt about her, her story, her life decisions.

I loved seeing how much Liz Nugent’s writing has evolved since Unravelling Oliver which I read last year. Delia is similar to Oliver in that she is a very morally grey character but the way her life is just mapped out for the readers is done so expertly.

And the ending of this was just such a mic drop, I LOVED it.