Complex characters tell the story of a woman who disappears after giving birth to her daughter, leaving her husband to care for their daughter. Why did she leave? What does her best friend, her sister, the husband's best friend know? I love the way it's told from alternating points of view. I was guessing the outcome until the very end. Excellent..

This is a book which intrigued me as a mother as I could not imagine abandoning my newborn daughter and leaving the country for five days.

Romily has just given birth to a baby girl with husband Marc and then disappears for 5 days. This book is the story of that disappearance and is told from multiple perspectives until the conclusion on day 5. The story is slow to start and although interesting was a little light in content for the first half. Once we get to the last two days the story speeds up and the pace makes the read more interesting and the conclusion is a good and unexpected one.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

A man discovers that his wife, who’s just given birth, has mysteriously flown the coop and left the baby behind. He tries his best to convince everyone that she is suffering from postpartum psychosis and must be found immediately, but it starts to look like he might not be telling the whole story.
This book was not as good as the author’s previous one, The Baby Group. The premise was a little too preposterous for me.
Thanks to #netgalley and #avonbooks for this #arc of #fivedaysmissing in exchange for an honest review.

A very clever book that really kept me guessing! I was sure on multiple occasions that I’d worked this one out, only to be taken in a totally different direction.
This was a fantastic read that I would really recommend

Five days missing by Caroline Corcoran is a 4 star read.
This is my first book by this author and WOW what a brilliant read. There were twists and turns galore and it was so hard to figure it out. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to more by this author.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy of this book through Netgalley.

Very cleverly written. A great domestic saga/psychological thriller. Told in three unreliable voices there are lots of red herrings to throw you about. Good twists and a gripping story.

I have not read this author before either but am absolutely enjoying the suspense. There are so many missing children stories (trust me! I wrote one myself: The Stepdaughter) but to read about a mother who goes missing soon after the birth of her baby and to have much of the narrative told by the father (is he a good guy? bad guy?) with insights from the best friend also was incredibly intriguing. We see so much with our friends & loved ones while we also see so little. An excellent book!

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

In all honesty, I wasn't too enthralled with the unreliable narrator in this book. I found the characters a little confusing. Still, saying that it is very well-written with plenty of twists and turns. Definitely a recommended read.

Five Days Missing by Caroline Corcoran
Pub Date 17th February 2022
Having a baby is all about firsts. The first touch. The first kiss. The first cuddle. They mark a lifetime of firsts – including the first goodbye.
When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave – and where she has gone.
In those first few hours, she had been the image of a doting mother and would have done anything to protect her baby.
Something has clearly gone wrong. Could it be that Romilly suffers from postpartum psychosis, just as her mother did?
Or is something even worse at hand? A danger so grave that she would leave her longed-for daughter to escape it…
I found Five Days Missing a disappointingly slow read. I found myself waiting for something to happen but was left deflated.
I want to thank NetGalley, Avon Books UK and author Caroline Corcoran for a pre-publication copy to review.

A gripping heart in the mouth thriller. The story is told from three points of view. The Husband, the Best Friend and The Woman, with a clear time line of events from the moment the woman goes missing having just given birth. Was it foul play, postpartum disease or an affair?
I had no idea how this story would end, but just as something seemed far too predictable, along came a twist. I was hooked from the start!

Five Days Missing is a bit of a slow burner to begin with but once it got going it had me gripped right to the end. It had plenty of twists and turns to keep me guessing and I really enjoyed it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for my ARC.

Five Days Missing was a fast paced psychological thriller with unpredictable twists and turns. I enjoyed the author's style of writing and look forward to reading more.

Having a baby is all about firsts. The first touch. The first kiss. The first cuddle. They mark a lifetime of firsts – including the first goodbye.
When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave – and where she has gone.
In those first few hours she had been the image of a doting mother and would have done anything to protect her baby.
Something has clearly gone wrong. Could it be that Romilly is suffering from postpartum psychosis, just as her mother did?
Or is something even worse at hand? A danger so grave that she would leave her longed-for daughter to escape it…

This is a thrilling read.
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.
Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher. This is my own hone\st voluntary review

Let me start by saying that this book gives you a whole new meaning to unreliable narrators. You don't know who to trust and even though it was so boring from the beginning towards the end you start getting invested in the story. But it will take a good 60% or 65% to get invested coz like I said before this is a SLOW burn.
Also the story felt so repetitive.
However at times it felt like you didn't know who to trust coz the perspectives sounded so true and when it switched from the husband to the wife and from the wife to the husband, you feel so confused coz you don't know who to trust. The author had done the povs from the other characters also really well!

Overall, this is an ok thriller,not much twists and turns, not a fast paced thriller but it was good.


Trigger warnings for: Mental health and Postpartum psychosis

I’ve enjoyed other books by the author so was looking forward to Five Days Missing. This is the kind of twisty thriller I love where you’re not sure what’s going on or who to trust. The fact the chapters are narrated by different characters adds to the tension and suspense. The book uses more than one unreliable narrator in the characters of Romilly and Mark because you don’t know is lying. Is Romilly suffering from postpartum depression and delusional or is Mark the true danger? I thought this was a corker.

Wow, just wow! I’ve just finished this, A wonderfully written novel! I did not see any of the twists coming at all. Everything about this book was superb from the plot to the characters. I would definitely recommend this if you liked gone girl.

Book starts slowly and kind of bounces confusingly between characters. Once you get far enough along it keeps you on the edge of your seat and surprises you with a plot twist at the end.

Romilly Beach has just given birth to a baby girl and when her husband, Marc,. goes to collect them to go home Romilly is missing but has left her daughter.

Romilly's sister, Loll, helps Marc with the new born and it is believed that Romilly is suffering from Post Partum Psychosis which can be hereditary and can be dangerous to the individual.

It comes to light that she was seen boarding a plane to France and this leads her friends, sister and mother as well as Marc to begin the search.

Cleverly plotted with numerous twists and turns which kept me guessing right until the end. a brilliant ending.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Avon Books UK and Caroline Corcoran for another brilliant read.

Highly recommended

The idea behind the story caught my attention and I thought this would be a really interesting story. Unfortunately, for me, it failed to deliver. I found it all very obvious and predictable.

What a book!
I couldn't put it down, the house went 'to pot' until I finished!
A mother goes missing from a maternity ward, a day after she gave birth. She leaves her newborn daughter & just disappears. So many unanswered questions, so many twists & turns!
Highly recommended read. A great, tense, thriller read.