Loved this book, even when I was not reading it I kept thinking about it and couldn’t wait to pick it up again and I finished it in a day. Would definitely recommend to others and can’t wait to read other titles from this author.

Highly recommend!!

Perhaps I'm daft - perhaps I am reading way too quickly that maybe I'm skimming over the parts that have to do with the tag line on the cover that "she wanted to make a family, not break one," but what I'm getting out of this book are Three Unforgivable Things - and they weren't done by Kate but rather Dan.

The chapters that focus on the children in present day would have been enough to be a typical chick lit book - the tale of 4 brothers and sisters finding their love and path somewhere in London. Every chapter but the last from Kate's point of view are so bitter, so angry, so resentful that its hard to read. In the first sibling's POV chapter they make their Mum sound like a hippy-dippy free love woman trying to find herself out on a communal retreat - nothing like Kate of her chapters.

While there may be some forgiveness at the end.- I'm not sure if its out of pity, guilt or love.. I was just so fricken happy the book came to an end,.

Loved this book from beginning to end. I didnt want to put it down. It broached some difficult subjects. It brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion
I would recommend this book to every woman.

I received an advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really wasn’t sure where this was going to go, I think I wanted it to be a very different book – so it’s not really the books fault that I didn’t like it. However, none of the motivations made any sense. It almost seemed like these characters were just trying to be self-destructive for no other reason than just to have drama for this book to resolve, if you call that ending a resolution. Meh. This is more of a melodrama and less of a psychological novel.

A different type of book from those I normally read but I was intrigued by the 'blurb' on the back.. I enjoyed the telling of the story from different characters and how it developed as you read the book. I thought it was an interesting reflection on family dynamics and relationships rather than gripping but again that may be my particular tastes.