Thank you to the author, publishers Joffe Books and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review.

 

A girl is missing from a strange rural all girls school. One of her teachers was injured the same night and has no memory of the past six months. As old friends of his come to the island to help in his recovery they begin to wonder if they really know him or how far he would go.

 

If you find it difficult to suspend your belief, are thrown by clunky exposition and convoluted soap opera-esque plots, walk away now.

 

For two-thirds of the book I was on board with it as an unrealistic but readable thriller. The kind of book that I could read without having to think much more about it. But, the final resolution and the clunkily delivered exposition, of the final third had me rolling my eyes in frustration. And more than once uttering an exasperated expletive at formulaic and forced ‘reveals’.