DNF - probably due to my own approach to reading but, I struggled to engage with the flow of this book. & was possibly not in the mindset to read this when I did.

This was a heart wrenching tale that brought much of my child hood back to me. This author knows how to tell a story.
Many thanks to Treerise Press and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion

The premise of this book was excellent. But it lacked in execution.

Two single mothers, raising a son each. One is a nurse working the night shift. She is also fighting with the voices in her head. The other is studying to become a nurse. The sadness in this book is overpowering. One son is unbearably lonely and sad as his mother works. The other is a a borderline bully.

I found the story was choppy, did not flow well.

Sadly, there is not much else that I can offer. It was not the book for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an Advance Readers Copy.

It had a promising premise and tackles such an important yet less talked about issue, but the book didn't do much for me because it was slow and moved in circles a lot of time. The characters were great though, and I'd definitely like to read more.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for an arc copy in exchange for my honest review.

The book was very well written and I loved that the story took place in the 70’s. I could relate to a lot of things the characters were going through being a single mom myself up to a certain point. I enjoyed the story until it went where I wasn’t expecting it to go. I feel the characters weren’t as developed as they needed to be. I started out liking Sara’s characters until one part in the book where she had a melt down over something trivial in my opinion. I think that energy would have been better spent focusing on her son.

I would recommend this book. It’s not filled with beautiful phrases or poetic writing. It’s just a story most of us can relate to.

This book broke my heart into a thousand pieces. This story felt very personal to me in so many ways. It's 1977 and both Jimmy and his friend Troy come from divorced families. I too had to deal with my parents split in 1977 and I felt much the same way as these characters do. I am a girl and I was twelve not eight but I still clicked with these young lads. The pop culture references of the time were also dear to my heart...The very popular space movie with toy actions figures, The Bionic Man and Scooby-Doo cartoons to name but a few.

I also clicked with Jimmy's mother, Sarah. She is struggling to work nights as nurse, look after her son and hold her mental health in check. As I was a single mom to two boys, at one time working three part-time jobs just to feed and clothe them...I can relate 100%. Sarah is lucky Troy's mother, Judy, is across the road to help out when she is working nights. But one day she isn't at the hospital when is should be, looking after her landlords wife, and the poor woman passes away. Now the landlord wants to sell all the homes he owns so Sarah and Jimmy move to Raleigh.

This isn't a book with big fancy words, it isn't lyrical nor does it have prose like poetry. It is, however, excellent storytelling, very sad and deals with a lot of issues many of us can relate to. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants an absorbing plot, good writing and a little nostalgia of times past. All. The. Stars.