This book was completely unexpected for me - it is a slow build of tension and an exploration of family conflict, focusing on the people we become when we dedicate our lives to others and how we'll you can ever really know a person.

The novel had me enraptured from start to finish - I couldn't put it down. I loved the third person narrative but the fact that each chapter the narrative perspective shifted so the reader was permitted different insights into all of the main characters and their viewpoints meant that nobody's true nature went uncovered.

This clever writing resulted in each character being morally grey and truly both likeable and not so - just as people are.

Any theatre/drama/literature buff will love the references in here to the stage and in-jokes and parallels between both dramaacripts and real-life situations.

A delicate, slow paced but poignant saga.

I reviewed this book in exchange of a digital copy from Randomthingstours.