Mel is a newly single mum, with a lot on her plate. Not only is she just starting to navigate the shared custody world, a man has moved in upstairs from her that reminds her far too much of an old boyfriend.

Lori has been traveling Australia and refuses to go home to England when the pandemic hits. She’s far more interested in finding Flynn in Sydney, a man she met and had what felt like the start of a relationship with in Broome.

As Mel and Lori’s world’s collide, Mel feels as though she’s watching her past play out before her, and that can’t be good for Lori.

I have absolutely loved all of Holly Wainwright’s books so far, and I did enjoy this one, it just didn’t quite have my adoring heart by the end. There was nothing wrong with it, it just missed living up to her other books by a smidgeon.

The exploration of how people can become lost inside a relationship they refuse to see for what it is was done well but it was still so frustrating to read. The describing of the man upstairs as a ‘ghost’ from the start really threw me too. I legitimately thought the author was talking about an actual ghost for half the book and I was trying to figure out how that was going to work 😅 (I probably should have read the synopsis beforehand and I would have realised the ghost part wasn’t literal)