One you start reading this book, and get the characters in your head, you will keep reading. When Rachel hits the storyline I did guess who she was, but the book just kept giving. A great read and would thoroughly recommend to others.

This is a twisty thriller that has feminist issues at its core.

A group of friends that are drawn together by three, wealthy, charismatic and privileged siblings that live on the *right side* of Greenwich Park, are navigating work, life and the approach of parenthood, as two of their number are heavily pregnant. In walks a single woman, a pregnant single woman, who throws a spanner in the works of their seemingly perfect lives. Slowly the varnish starts to crack and as the sheen fades secrets are revealed and with it, grave danger for all concerned.

With beautifully drawn, complex characters, brilliant plotting that keeps you guessing and thought provoking questions posed about motherhood, mental health, rape prosecution, media and privilege this book packs more of a punch than your average page turner and I hope it gets the huge readership it deserves.

Found this book a little slow to begin with but became obvious that this was needed to bring the individual characters to the fore. It made you wonder why Daniel and Helen put up with Rachel for so long but as the story unfolded this became apparent. This was a very enjoyable read with lots of twists that made you want to find out what conclusion would enfold. Surprise in store at the end. Turned out to be a page turner.

For the first time in my life, I have sat and read all day long! That’s how good this book is! It’s a slow burner! I spent the first 20% of the book, thinking.........shall I give it up! To be fair, I say that quite often about books, I much prefer to be sucked in from the first page! The start of the book introduces you to Helen, who is married to Daniel, and Serena, who is married to Helen’s brother Rory. Rory and Daniel are in business with one another and Helen and Serena are both pregnant with their first babies. Rachel comes into the story when the four prospective parents are supposed to be starting ante-natal classes but poor Helen is the only one of the four who turns up. She ends up sitting with Rachel who is also pregnant and somehow they get to be ........sort of.......friends.
Helen is strange girl, lacking confidence, lacking friends and even though she truly doesn’t like anything about Rachel - they are after all polar opposites. Helen has a privileged upbringing and lives in a beautiful house which she inherited from her parents and Rachel is a bit ...........let’s just say less privileged. That initial part of the book bored me to tears and made me quite cross with Helen as she behaved like a doormat. But keep with it.....because all of a sudden you will be hooked - as I was!

The story is told from the viewpoints of Helen, Serena and Katie (the girlfriend of Helen and Serena’s husband Rory’s brother!). I find the labelling of the chapters with the narrator’s name a great help! The book suddenly, for me, picked up pace and I started to really get involved! I didn’t actually like most of the characters, the only one I warmed to at all was Katie, who is an investigative journalist and had a lovely warmth to her and the partly retired detective - he was ok. . The others I just didn’t like.

It’s a clever, twisty, turning plot that although I had guessed by the end, still kept me page turning - I literally couldn’t put it down! All credit to Katherine Faulkner. I didn’t always enjoy the style of writing, sometimes a little stilted......lots of short sentences gave it a staccato type of feel but that’s a small criticism for an amazing book! Well done!

My thanks, as always, to the author, the publishers and NetGalley for an advanced copy in return for an honest review! .

This felt like a really fresh pysch thriller which is unusual in such a crowded market! The writing was great and I loved the descriptions of Greenwich and London in general. I actually didn't guess 'whodunnit' - it could have been any of the main protagonists and I LOVED the twist with Serena at the end.
Will definitely look out for more from this author.

I love a contemporary novel and this one doesn't disappoint.
When middle class Helen meets the brash and brassy Rachel at an antenatal class they become friends. But Rachel keeps turning up wherever Helen goes.
Creepy and suspenseful this book was unputdownable.

Wow, what a book! I loved it.
This is fantastically written and I was hooked from page 1. It’s dark with plenty of twists of turns to keep me guessing.
It’s one of my favourites this year and worthy of 5 stars.

Helen has the perfect life.
It’s not long before the cracks begin to show.

Helen has it all: the perfect house, the perfect husband, the perfect group of friends and siblings. And now, finally, after so many tragedies, a wonderfully healthy pregnancy.

Then Helen meets Rachel at her first antenatal class. Rachel is a single mother-to-be. She is brash, over the top…she is a nightmare. Why does she keep popping up in Helen’s life unannounced? How does she know where Helen will be?
Rachel seems determined to befriend Helen. Helen goes along with it out of politeness, but what ensues is the unravelling of her life as she knows it.

I found Greenwich Park to be very readable. It’s suspenseful, I really liked its pace: you find out little snippets of new information as you continue to read – my brain busy whirring away, trying to predict what was going to happen! The story has many twists and turns, as a good thriller should have, and it kept me guessing until the very satisfying end!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read a copy of this book.
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This book was a good read theres mystery tension and a atmosphere throughout this book overall I thought this book was a twisted mystery I would definitely read another book from this author

Greenwich Park was an engaging read, which kept me reading ;just one more chapter.'

I liked the way the author structured the novel, which gave us a clear time line of events. It is presented in terms if how many weeks pregnant Helen is. I liked the way it started and ended with a letter from Daniel, who is in prison.

Daniel and Helen, Rory and Serena had all studied at Cambridge university. Ten years later, both woman are pregnant. Having suffered many miscarriages, Helen is taking special care with this pregnancy. When Daniel fails to turn up at the antenatal class, she meets Rachel. In the weeks that follow, Rachel seems to appear wherever Helen is and eventually she ends up moving into her home.

This was a well paced mystery which kept me guessing throughout and the final reveal came together really well, with a well written climactic scene.

This is an impressive debut which would make a great TV drama.

Thanks indeed to netgalley and the Bloomsbury for the ARC.

A fantastic, twisty read. This book was very difficult to put down, as I just needed to know what was going to happen next.
The characters of Helen, Serena and Rachel were very well drawn and Rachel, as a 'cuckoo' type, who invades into Helen's life, was particularly intriguing.

A great read and recommended.

Helen and Daniel look at long last as though they may soon be parents, something that Helen has wanted desperately for years. And her sister in law Serena is expecting. too. However things aren’t going smoothly, Daniel is distracted by work, Serena decides not to go to the same antenatal classes and there’s a huge amount of building work being done at her home, so when a young woman befriends her at the classes she feels grateful at first. However, Rachel is not the sort of friend she would normally choose, in fact it seems that wherever Helen goes, Rachel turns up. And it starts to feel odd, as much as she tries to keep away from Rachel, there she always is.

As a debut novel this is well planned and written, with undercurrents running through the book that carry it along nicely, if a bit confusingly at times. I couldn’t take to Helen, who came across as one of life’s victims. I found her frustrating at her inability to carry anything through, be it saying no to Rachel or making Daniel talk to her about what was going on with him. That said it was an interesting plot, and I wanted to know how it finished.

Thank to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I’d seen so many great reviews about this book I couldn’t wait to read it for myself and I wasn’t disappointed. This book really does deserve all the great reviews. This book is a brilliant and assured debut novel. The story hooks you in from the very beginning as it starts with the afterwards and gets you intrigued with the who, when, why, what? It really is the perfect psychological thriller that keeps you hooked right to the last page. The story is perfectly paced and gradually reveals itself with little glimpses so one minute you think you know what’s going on but then you turn the page and you realise that maybe you don’t know as much as you thought you did...

Greenwich Park is a multi-layered story in two parts. The first parts seems like a well-trodden 'girl meets enigmatic stranger' and the second part is an unexpected and complex murder mystery. Katherine Faulkner uses multiple unreliable narrators' points of view which shifts the reader's sympathies throughout. The plot is tightly paced and the tension is palpable almost from the beginning. Greenwich Park is a classy, tautly written thriller.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and read it in 2 sittings! Helen has a seemingly perfect life: a loving husband, a beautiful house and a great brother and sister in law. Now she is finally having a successful pregnancy after suffering a number of miscarriages. Then she meets Rachel at her ante natal class. Rachel is young, loud and brash, but she seems determined to become Helen's friend. However, Rachel has a secret and she is determined to get her revenge for something that happened 10 years ago. This is a pacy read with a fast moving plot, and will keep you guessing til the last page! Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.
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Helen attends an antenatal class, hoping that her husband will attend. When he doesn’t – and her sister-in-law also doesn’t arrive, opting for another course – Helen frets that she’ll be the only solo attendee. But she meets Rachel, a young mum to be who isn’t scared to say what she thinks and who – it seems – desperately wants to be Helen’s friend. Perhaps she is just what Helen needs to relax before her much longed for baby arrives. However, Rachel is almost too keen for Helen’s company and attention, wanting to know everything she can about her new friend. Things quickly escalate and Rachel becomes more of a fixture in Helen’s home – and then the plot takes a sinister twist. It’s a clever read that makes you wonder how you would react in a similar situation.

Greenwich Park is a well plotted psychological thriller with a cast of characters that have a depth to them that add much to this story. Well paced and Convoluted and with many twists that are at times hair raising
Helen is attending her first National Childbirth Trust birthing class, waiting for her husband and brother and his expectant wife to attend with her, you realise from a text sent that the sister in law is not going to be a great person. With no sign of them joining her she meets single mother Rachel, Rachel is brash and extrovert and gradually starts to enter Helens life and here the games begin. ( as a midwife I didn’t feel the NCT classes as depicted will not inspire many expectant mothers to attend)
To say more may give away spoilers, there are many shockingly dark secrets gradually revealed that will leave you breathless.
A good read with a satisfying ending that brought everything together well.
My thanks to net galley and publishers for the opportunity to review this book honestly.

What a deliciously dark enthralling book this turned out be with a load of twists that made for a excellent read.
The story starts out quite simply Helen pregnant after four previous miscarriages meets with Rachel at an antenatal class, Helen is feeling quite out of place when her husband Daniel has failed to turn up at the class so she is quite glad of meeting the loud and exuberant Rachel even though she is the polar opposite of Helen and from there we are taken on a twisted and tangled web of secrets, lies and deceptions and my goodness there is o hell of lot going on in this book.
I was really impressed with the complexity and crafting of the story and more so when I found out this was actually a debut, all credit to Katherine Faulkner who I think has got a big hit with this first novel.
It’s a read I just couldn’t put down and I kept changing my mind as the story progressed as to who was guilty and also why and I loved that it had my head spinning. Rachel was a brilliantly written character I went backwards and forwards in liking and disliking her, in fact all the characters were well written and again not always likeable but I love that in a book.
So a really great read that I can highly recommend it’s one to keep you guessing.
My thanks to NetGalley and Bloomsbury Publishing, Raven Books for giving me the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

After years of trying and a lot of heartache, Helen and Daniel are well on their way to welcoming their first child into the world. As are their friends, Serena and Rory. It seems like everything is coming up roses for the two couples, until Helen meets Rachel at her antenatal class which starts a chain of events that will change all of their lives forever.

As debut novel’s go, Katherine Faulkner’s Greenwich Park is an enjoyable read. The story is, by and large, familiar. It centres on two couples who seem to have everything from the outside looking in, until the chaotic Rachel enters the fray and upsets the apple cart.

The book is full of secrets which unravel as you move through it. I found myself feeling both sorry for and irritated by Helen’s vulnerability and naivety, which I feel was intentional and very well done. Similarly, Rachel’s presence is unsettling. From the get go you know her intentions aren’t what she makes out, and that she is about to blow the doors wide open on their lives.

I think the shifting narrative perspectives work well. Rather than just being stuck in Helen’s mind, we flit between characters as they all make their separate discoveries. This helps to give the book a pace which keeps you flicking through as you speed towards the ending.

My only bugbear is the sheer amount of exposition, which rather than intensify what is happening seems to take away from the immediacy of it. Instead of being shown, we are told. So, while the twists are unexpected and shocking, when the jigsaw falls into place, you also feel a little bit disconnected from all the action. I would have liked to have felt carried along by it all and make the final reveal myself, rather than hear it second hand.

That being said, the book is well-plotted and the ending is, overall, quite satisfying as all it’s twists and turns fall into full focus.

Wow what a story! Fantastic debut from the author!

Every chapter had me going wtf?! up until the last page!!!!! A great thriller with a brilliant plot twist/s I truly didnt see coming. I initially requested this book based on the title. Greenwich park being a one of my favourite places for me. I had thought nothing interesting happens in Greenwich but what a fun ride this was. Turns out crazy things can happen in Greenwich! It was fun seeing an area I know well in this story and made it even more real for me.

Initially disliked Helen because how can someone be so gullible!!! But in the end I realised she is just a good person who wants to help. The book is told from several perspectives, which makes it even better! Very gripping novel with great characters! So many twists and turns. The connections between the characters were really well written and planned out. Made the story fascinating. Couldnt stop reading!

4/5

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloomsbury for the ARC in exchange for a honest review.