Ten months after the accident, she's still trying to reckon with the fact that she rescued Isaac Greer, another woman's child, when Isaac suddenly vanishes. Jules went from a seemingly completely normal woman to full on fruit loops and it made no sense whatsoever. Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to listen to and review an ARC of Off the Deep End by Lucinda Berry.

Both are very supportive of each other’s careers and goals, but Wes is constantly in his head, critiquing everything and holding himself to lofty and unrealistic expectations. The Big Issue Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds - and no wonder. Instead we get all kinds of irrelevant details such as kid sister sleeping in the bed with her parents over fears of the “rampaging kidnapper/ serial killer”, among other completely irrelevant details that are never really explored or shown why they are crucial to the story being told. years ago, humanity didn't even know black holes existed - nor did actual photography quite exist yet. Combine Lucinda Berry’s deep understanding of the complexities of the human mind with her immense talent for storytelling and you have The Secrets of Us , an intense psychological thriller that kept my heart racing until the shocking, jaw-dropping conclusion.The novel has tiny, tiny bits of the good old Lucinda creepiness (I say tiny in the loosest sense) and I did like the aspect of the serial killer. At that stage I did not know what I was in for… let me set the record straight after reading 4 or 5 of LB’s other books and loving Appetite for Innocence and Phantom Limb to a 5⭐️star level - I was ready for this. He is meticulous and driven about his training and in no mood for a rookie reporter following him around.

Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart’s idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake. I was gifted this book by Thomas and Mercer and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review. If you love a strangers-to-lovers workplace romance with a determined hunky diver, a hot charismatic journalist, Olympic dreams, a dedicated coach, a supportive family, bowling, axe throwing, abstract paintings of the Eiffel Tower (ha! It’s been a long time since I’ve flew through a book like this and I have to credit that to Berry’s writing style! I feel like I struck gold, found the golden ticket and discovered that Santa was real - all on the same day -, when I found this available as “read now” on NetGalley.Our current partner charities in the UK are READ International, the National Literacy Trust, Room to Read. Now, she spends her days writing full-time where she uses her clinical experience to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction.