This was different a glimpse into a yummy mummy lifestyle lve looked at them in the coffee shops and wondered how they have either the time or money to treat themselves as they always seem to be huddled in their favourite corner taking loudly surrounded by their designer nappy bags - in the book this lifestyle was at the front but it covered a darkness of jealousy and a desire for revenge - loved the book and will recommend it on my book page mygoldenbookclub as soon as it’s published - looking forward to reading the next book

Scarlett is a new mother with an eleven month old daughter. She has made a new group of friends that all have babies.
She is devastated when someone posts a sex tape of her and sends it to her contacts online.
A story about secrets and lies with some twists and turns.
Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book focuses on the emotional journey of a woman whose sex tape is leaked after many years - she is now a respectable employee, a mother and a wife. It explores the relationship between the wife and husband and the awkwardness very well.

However, it does not touch on the police investigation at all - I don't even remember if she goes to the police with it. I am halfway into the book, and there are just some flaccid attempts to find out who may have done it - so far, only two 'suspects' and with just one meeting with each of them, she is convinced its not them.

The book later picks up quite a bit.... there are twists and turns and multiple POVs.

It's an interesting read!

Fantastic thriller by a seasoned author. The book has great plots, twist, and turns just when you think you know bam another great twist. Highly recommend

Scarletts life falls apart when a video of her is sent to everyone she knows. The only people who say they haven’t seen it are the friends in her baby group, but do we believe them. This book dragged for me and I struggled to finish it, I just never connected with the characters. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

This was a page turning thriller that I really had no idea which way it would go.
The suspects are narrowed down throughout the book but you’re still left looking for clues in each chapter and the ending was a genuine surprise.
The main character had depth with secrets and a past yet still managed to be relatable

Scarlett has the perfect life, at least that is how it appears in her blog Cheshire Mum. She is a new mum with a handsome husband and a country home supported by her fellow new moms, met and bounded with at prenatal instruction. But is anything ever that perfect? Caroline Corcoran has crafted a solid story that has enough suspense, twists and turns to satisfy the reader as well as a few surprises along the way. I would recommend this read and I now will be looking for her previous book to see if it is as good or if #TheBabyGruop was just a one off. Thanks to Avon UK for the review copy.
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Scarlett is a rich and successful mom to a 11-month old girl. She is on maternity leave from her amazing Digital Marketing job and runs a successful online blog called Cheshire Mama. Cheshire is the name of the village where she lives, some 1 hour away from the hubbub of the city, in a huge listed home on a private road. She's friendly, outgoing, ever ready to click a picture and post it on her Instagram feed.
Her friends from NCT - outgoing and brash Cora, quiet and apologetic Emma, and small cleanliness freak Asha - are her 3 am friends now, now that she doesn't have any "old" friends to fall back on after becoming a mother.

Eventually, she joins back to work, and the day she does, she has a huge shock in store.

Someone has mailed her boss and her co-workers a sex tape in which she is with two people - both males. The video is sent to her husband, her friends from work, and her father as well.
Everyone, except her NCT friends. And Scarlett has no idea who did this or why.

As the world around her slowly disintegrates, she tries to keep her NCT friends from knowing this terrible secret, which in turn, would open a can of worms that no one can contain.

What I liked:
The language was fluid and it was a quick read - always a plus for me as I'm strapped of time ALWAYS!

The characters were well fleshed out. Scarlett's NCT friends, Ollie, Mitch, and Ed were all people with their own struggles and battles. I LOVE well-defined characters.

The ending was good. It tied up loose ends. Gave valid explanations for everything.

What I didn't like:
Why did Scarlett have to find evidence of who sent the video (as suggested by her lawyer)? Isn't it the work of the police?

Some situations seem improbable. Like the one where Scarlett breaks down in front of Ed and then all the four of the NCTs go to the bar and drink themselves senseless. Hello? What about your babies?


Anyway, these points apart, the book was good. Nothing mind-blowing, but if you're looking for a quick mystery read, this book is the one for you.

Thanks to Netgalley and Avon Books for the ARC copy.

Scarlett has a great life. New baby. Perfect husband. Perfect house. Perfect job to go back to. Then her life is turned upside down. Who would do this? An old friend? A new one?

This book kept me guessing over who the bad person was and each chapter left me wanting to read the next one to find out more! A gripping story that you hope never happens to you!

I had such a hard time getting into this book or even caring. Scarlett was a terrible character. I had no feeling for her. She didn't seem rounded enough for me to care what happened to her until closer to the end but even still, I wasn't rushing to read this like I would have liked to. None of the characters struck me as truly likeable. I felt like the chapters rambled on more than they dug deeper, which left me bored. It was a good idea, I just think it should have went deeper and maybe been cut shorter in many instances.

I do, however, think that it would have grabbed my attention better had the first chapter started with the first Anon chapter. The first two chapters actually had me wanting to put the book down. Where as, the Anon chapters were the driving force and I would have liked to see more of that personality come through because it was the only, truly well developed personality throughout the entire book.

Scarlett is mommy blogger/influencer whose past comes knocking the winds out of her sails. Though I love domestic thrillers, somehow I couldnt get past the first two chapters or connect with the characters.
Thank you Netgalley and Avon Books for the ARC

Helloooo spicy domestic thriller! I was so pulled into this book that I read it all in one sitting!

Scarlett seems to have it all - a lovely little daughter named Poppy, a handsome, well-off husband Ed, and a successful mommy blog that's been bankrolling her maternity leave and pumping up her local celeb status. Her closest group of friends (the baby group) is Cora, Emma, and Asha, three moms from her ante-natal class with which she's been sharing everything since her pregnancy. When a video from Scarlett's past is sent to all her coworkers/friends/family/husband's family, her life is derailed and she's on the hunt to figure out who is out to get her before her deepest secret is revealed.

I didn't love Scarlett (especially as she devolved into alcoholism - that felt like an overdone trope of the unreliable female narrator), but I am generally fine with not loving the main character as long as the plot is good, and I was sufficiently intrigued to not care about my personal feelings of Scarlett. I will say that I appreciated how reflective and open to realizing her own faults she was towards the end. I also liked that she was imperfect and had a past. We ALL have a history, and I thought it was relatable and fantastic that she had a pull-herself-up=by-her-bootstraps situation going on. Her sordid past wasn't necessarily relatable, but parts of it were and the character herself was written in a relatable manner, I felt.

I was kept guessing the ENTIRE time as to who released the video, and I won't say that the end ~delighted~ me, but the twist was good, and I was at least a little bit surprised. I really liked how seamlessly the author casually offered up numerous niblets for why multiple characters could be the one after Scarlett. I really was on the edge of my seat for the final scenes. I liked that we were given a taste of her "new" life at the end, and more insight into certain scenes from earlier in the book that needed some explaining once we knew who the culprit was.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4. Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I would like to thank Avon books UK, Caroline Corcoran and Netgalley for the advance copy of The Baby Group an for giving me this opportunity to give an honest review.

This story about Scarlett whose life is perfect until a video is posted to all her friends and family but she does not know why this is happened. So she tries to investigate who has posted it! The only people that have not received this post is the baby group she belongs to in her village. Where she is an influencer and a blogger on her perfect life.
This is a great read with its twists and turns as you try to guess who is trying to ruin Scarlets life. It is a dark domestic thriller which gets you thinking about how much of your life we put out there for everyone to see. The story moves at a good pace that you want to keep reading. I would definitely recommend this book and will be reading more from this author.

Thank you to Caroline Corcoran, Avon Books UK, and Netgalley for an ARC of The Baby Group in exchange for an honest review. This book was definitely entertaining and keep me on the edge of my seat at times. I would highly recommend reading this book.

This was brilliant! Fast paced and kept me gripped throughout. Very apt with lots that can go on now-a-days because of social media. I read this in a couple of days and would definitely recommend

I really enjoyed this thriller by Caroline Corcoran. It has a fast pace, good writing and interesting characters. It kept me guessing til the end.

I received this ARC from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review

Thank You to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for giving this eARC.
I really tried to read it, but writing and characters both didn't work for me.

A disturbing read on so many levels. The multiple strands of the nature of love, friendship, what matters and trust all interweave to create a tense thriller that starkly demonstrates the fragility of the things we think we hold dear. As characters begin to lose their sense of reality, the tension builds, as does the reader's, as worlds begin to collapse.

3.5 stars
This is a well knit story of characters that are interconnected. There are no lose ends and the plot is enjoyable. It was pretty clear to deduce early on who the leaker was and the ‘why’ was something that the reader could guess, But the author did manage to add twists in the end that implicated more characters form the story and gave it a good spin. The middle is a little slow but the end compensates for it. I did find the writing style a little too detailed but it wasn’t a deal breaker. Overall entertaining and definitely above average read.

Thank you so much to #NetGalley and Avon Books for the ARC.

I wasn't sure what to expect but this was a great thriller. Fast paced and kept me invested. This is the first book I have read by Corcoran and I loved it!