ARC received from author for an honest review

Every time I pick up a Nicola Haken story, I tell myself that this is the time that she isn't going to wreck me.

Nope. I was wrong - again.

Bring Me Home decimated my heart, but Ms Haken also put it back together.

I love a best friends/second chance tale, and Helen and Hugo is one of the best I have read.

Not just the relationship, but also with the way depression and mental illness is depicted. There is a rawness to Bring Me Home that resonated so much with me. I have suffered depression for many years, and it is hard to describe to someone else what it feels like.

However I feel Ms Haken has done this so well. I think I cried for about 50% of this book, as Hugo was me. So much me at my worst.

And Ms Haken nailed it in just 3 words.... "depression just... was". Anyone who has depression will know just how true this is.

Thank you for giving us a realistic, raw story.