This just wasn't a book for me. It is good! I just am also twin mom and I am still crazy almost ten years later. It felt too real for me and I need to take a lot of breaks. I bet other people are going to love this!

New mum Lucy couldn't be more in love with her twin baby boys, but with her husband Andrew's return to long hours at work, she's left to deal with the sleepless nights alone. When her best friend Nina suggests they hire a night nanny, Lucy jumps at the opportunity - much to the distaste of her overbearing mother-in-law. But Evie is a natural with the boys and the extra sleep means the days are more manageable. Slowly but surely, Lucy is a finding a way back to her old self and soon, she might even be ready to get back to running the gym she owns with Nina.

Then things begin to go missing, the doubts start creeping in and Lucy finds she can't keep track of the truth. Is it baby brain, or could there be a side to Evie she's not letting on? And when the future of Lucy's business is threatened, she starts down a path that might lead her to uncover some long-buried truths about their small town.

This started out slow, but picked up in the second half. I liked the overall story, and the twists and turns kept me turning pages. Overall, a solid thriller once you get past the slow start! 3.5⭐

I received an advanced complimentary digital copy of this book from Netgalley. Opinions expressed are my own.

It started slow but once it got going it was very good. I enjoy the twists but took a while to get there.

Lucy and Andrew are new parents, struggling with fatigue as a result of dealing with their twin babies. Lucy shares a business venture with her best friend Nina who suggests that the couple get a night nanny, so that they can sleep more and are better equipped to deal with their baby boys.

All seems to be working out well initially with Evie, who handles the children very well, enabling the exhausted pair to catch up on their sleep to some degree. But soon inconsistencies emerge and Lucy is unsure whether this is a result of hormone related memory issues aka pregnancy brain, or something more sinister...

I found the pacing of this story to be less than satisfactory, which adversely affected my opinion of the book. It does have certain strengths, which lie primarily in the plotting of the story. A smoother pace in the storytelling would have done better justice to the book itself, but it is still worth a read.

I enjoyed this
It was a tad slow but I enjoyed the story line
I liked the characters they were well written and interesting I love a book full of secrets and lies
A fab thriller which I couldn’t put down
E

Unfortunately, this book wasn't for me. I liked the first half of the book better, even though not much happened there. It was like a cozy book with mystery elements. The second half was a bit of a mess and I didn't like the writing style. Unfortunately, it was only a 3 star book for me.

This is an enjoyable, original story by Kathryn Whitfield. The story is that of Lucy, a new mum struggling with extreme fatigue following the birth of her twin boys. Best friend and business partner, Nina, suggests a night nanny and Lucy is instantly drawn to young Evie to fulfil this role. Things in the home start to go awry and suspicions as to Evie's intentions are cast. Thrown into the mix, we are privy to Evie's internal dialogue and it is A LOT!!

In a seemingly unrelated event, Lucy discovers that her husbands childhood friend, Carl, is planning to set up a business that will directly impact the success of the gym she runs with Nina. Though seemingly unrelated these event are linked in mysterious and quite frankly pretty dark, ways!

This book is wonderfully original, well written and utterly gripping - all in all, a novel I would wholeheartedly recommend!

My thanks to NetGalley, authors and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

A solid thriller. Intense, gritty, and utterly compelling, one to look out for in the shops. It had non-stop action with a twist I didn’t expect

Possible spoiler

This book just wasn’t for me. The plot sounded really good but it never pulled together. The first 60% of the book nothing at all happens. It’s just a mom getting a nanny. No drama, no suspense, nothing. Then a couple of small things happen but the nanny ultimately had nothing to do with anything. She ended up being related to a random character but she wasn’t sinister or mysterious at all. The end got a little bit wild but it didn’t pull together somehow and I didn’t care by then. The characters throughout the book seemed very inconsistent which also made it hard to enjoy the book.

I found this psychological thriller to pull me in right away. Lucy and Andrew are brand new, sleep deprived, parents to twin boys. With Andrew finishing up his parental leave, Lucy finds that just as she gets one baby settled, the other needs her attention - day and night, resulting in essentially no sleep.

At the suggestion of her bestie, Nina, she convinces Andrew to hire a night nanny a few nights a week, so they can get some rest and be more present for the boys and each other. Not only does she sense a strange reluctance from her husband, but this decision gives her stuffy and judgmental mother in law more fodder. Evie, the nanny, is wonderful with the boys. Coincidentally, strange things start happening planting doubts about Evie's character.

A separate timeline tells of Andrew's upbringing and escapades from his teen years. Let's just say the past is not always hidden away like one may wish.

Full of wild twists, and just the right amount of small details, I had trouble putting it down! This story seems like something that could unfold in your very own neighborhood. The bags under my eyes prove that I stayed up way too late to finish the story.

Thanks to NetGalley, Headline | Headline Accent, and Kathryn Whitfield for the eARC.
#TheNightNannysSecret #NetGalley

This book had me hooked, there was so many twists and turns that I just wanted to know what was going to happen next.

I LOVED this book, I will definitely be checking out more of this authors work! Wow. Characters were great, situations that new mothers are put in is bang on. Lots of twists and turns. I thoroughly enjoyed this read!

Lucy and Andrew are exhausted new parents to twin boys. Andrew’s is a surgeon working long hours and Lucy finds herself overwhelmed and struggling to cope. Then, her best friend Nina suggests the life saving idea of hiring a night nanny. Andrew is reluctant Lucy-s mother-in-law opposes it. But Lucy eventually persuades Andrew, and they hire Evie, a young and capable nanny who seems like the perfect solution.

At first, Evie fits seamlessly into their lives, allowing Lucy and Andrew to finally catch up on some much-needed sleep. However, Lucy soon begins to feel overshadowed by Evie’s competence, which only deepens her insecurities as a new mother. But this is not the only thing that Lucy needs to worry about...

The Night Nanny’s Secret is a very slow burner but it's worth sticking to. The ending was shocking!!

2.5 stars rounded up to 3. So, this is a new to me author I liked the premise of the book so decided to give it a try. This book starts slow. And I do mean slow. It drags all the way past the half way point with repetitive information and honestly, if it were not an ARC, I wouldn't have finished it. Things picked up around 60 percent but a lot of things didn't make sense to me. I felt the characters were very one dimensional and flat. I needed to know more. I again found a lot of holes and things that just needed more explaining and a lot of things that needed much less explaining. In a nutshell, Lucy has twins, but her husband needs to travel for work so they hire a night nanny, Evie.

Thank you to Headline Accent and Netgalley for the ARC. I greatly appreciate it. I cannot, in good faith, recommend this book. I'm sorry.

This book had so many secrets, you could really feel the tension whilst reading, for me this tension made me want to keep reading to find out the truth, great read overall.

Lucy and Andrew are new parents to twin boys who they adore but, with Andrew's job as a surgeon meaning he has to work long hours, it's hard for Lucy to cope on her own, so when her best friend and business partner Nina suggests they hire a nanny to look after the boys at night Lucy is immediately invested in the idea, even though Andrew isn't, and his mother even less so. Lucy eventually convinces Andrew that it will be good for them as they'll get much needed sleep so they interview and employ Evie, who immediately settles into her new role and Lucy can start thinking about when she may return to work, then things start going missing and long buried secrets begin to unravel and Lucy doesn't know who she can trust anymore.

The Night Nanny's Secret starts off as a slow burner told from the perspective of Lucy in the present day with flashbacks to the year 2000 when Andrew was a teenager. The first half of the story mapped out the background of the characters and, while it was at times repetitive, it was easy to follow and with later events did make sense in the end. During the second half things began to ramp up when the two timelines collide, with lots of twists, secrets and lies and eventually we discover why Andrew was so against getting a nanny for his boys. It's a well crafted plot with creepy undertones, some really interesting characters and a great ending. This is the first I've read by this author but have since discovered I have her previous book on my kindle so I look forward to reading that and more of her work in the future.

I'd like to thank Headline and Netgalley for the approval, I will post my review on Goodreads now and Amazon on publication day.

My Rating: 2 (would have been 2.5) stars out of 5

Trigger Warning and full disclaimer, I knocked an half a star from this review due to the unnecessary death of a pet. I understand the author was trying to emphasize just how cruel this particular character could be, but I will never condone violence against animals for the shock value, especially when there are other ways that the same point could have been driven home to the reader. I would have taken a full star, but decided to be generous since the death itself happened off the page.

Moving on to the rest of this story, this was a hard one to remain invested in as the first half drags on with repeated information that just isn't needed. First it was with the details of Lucy's exhaustion. I get it, she's a new mom to twins nonetheless and her husband (while he tries to occasionally be helpful) is still the only one working leaving the majority of the late-night work to her, so once they hired on their night nanny, I expected these details to become less so that we could move on to the real plot of the story. Sadly, I was mistaken as we were somehow bogged down with even more details. Of how Evie helped Lucy feed the twins, bathe the twins, change their diapers, change them for bed, etc.

About halfway through, we start getting other details thrown at us. Some money goes missing, Evie seems to overstep in certain areas, and a potential threat to Lucy's business rise up. All at once. And of course peppered throughout is the occasional visit from Lucy's mother-in-law, who seems to ooze disdain at everything Lucy does (or doesn't do as the case may be). But even then, the night-time routines of the twins seem to still take center stage to the point there were several times that I almost gave up on this novel. I desperately wanted MORE. Even the little bits that painted Evie in a not-so-flattering light were so few and far between that I found myself losing interest in this novel as there wasn't enough non-domestic drama happening to entice me to keep reading.

I feel I should also mention at this point that this novel does have dual timelines with certain events happening in present day, and others happening back when Andrew and his friends were teenagers. And even with that dual telling, I still found myself getting bored. Who cares what a group of bored teenagers were doing with their summer vacation back in 2000?

And then all of the sudden as we reached the last third of the novel, it was like a switch was flipped and the author suddenly remembered the plot. A lot of things started happening at once, and while the book did become a lot more interesting for me, I also found one particular plot point to be completely inconceivable (mainly the fact that if someone was so obviously in such an altered mental status that they attempted to harm themselves, they would have been placed on an immediate psychiatric hold and not allowed to just sign themselves out and leave). But by this point, it was too little too late as far as I was concerned. I would have much rather had all of this drama be spread out over more of the novel instead of just rushing at a breakneck speed towards the conclusion.

However, I do think that even with the issues that I had with this one (the trigger warning notwithstanding), this book may still appeal to those who enjoy suspense novels that are slow to get going, but once they do, go out with a bang.

DISCLAIMER: I received a complimentary copy of this novel from the publisher. This has not affected my review in any way. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are 100% my own.

The Night Nanny by Kathryn Whitfield
Publication date set for the 5th of December.
This is a great book. Personally it was a little slow to start with but it was so picked up and was a great book.
Good twists
I for one will never hire a nanny.... who am i kidding i couldn't afford one anyway haha.

The Night Nanny’s Secret by Kaitlyn Whitfield is a psychological thriller that follows a family’s decision to hire a night nanny to help with their newborn. While the arrangement initially seems perfect, strange events begin to unravel, exposing hidden secrets and lies. As trust crumbles, the family must confront the unsettling truth about the person they invited into their home.

I found The Night Nanny’s Secret to be a mixed bag. The book starts off quite slow, with the first half feeling a bit repetitive as the groundwork is laid for the story. However, once the second half kicks in, the pace picks up and I was drawn into the twists and turns. The suspense builds nicely, and the revelations in the latter half make up for the sluggish start.

While the beginning could have been more dynamic, I enjoyed how the story wrapped up and appreciated the clever plotting in the end. Fans of slow-burn thrillers with a big finish will likely enjoy this book.
3.5/5

WOW! I will never hire a nanny! This book was great! Packed full of lies and secrets and they are all keeping me locked in tight! I finished this in one sitting and I will def be buying this for my 5 star shelf!