Erin and Will, a long-standing couple - married for over a decade and with a young child - have unexpectedly reached a crisis point in their marriage. They both describe themselves as having been happily married for many years and are desperate to understand why things have deteriorated so much in such a short time.

When the couple go together to visit a marriage counsellor, Maggie Day also finds herself struggling to make sense of it all. Erin says she does not trust Will and that she feels scared of him but cannot explain why. Will says is wife is lying when she mentions various incidents that she claims have taken place between the two of them.

It would be unfair to describe this book simply as a psychological thriller, because the character development displays far greater depth than you would normally see in a work of that kind. Heidi Perks has intimately examined the psyche of her 2 key female characters in particular, and really succeeds in bringing them to life in the reader's mind.

My only criticism of this book is that it took some time to warm up, so it was hard to see where the story was going, and the first few chapters could do with some tightening in terms of editing. But having said that, this is easily one of the most interesting books I have read in a while - and I read a lot of books!

The story is nuanced, clever, and very confusing. Deliberately so, given the number of red herrings that Perks sends the reader's way. The result is a book that hugely picks up the pace after a slightly slow start, and does not let up until the last page. The twists are, well, fairly twisted. This is definitely worth a read for anyone who enjoys domestic dramas as well as those who like psychological thrillers.

This was an engrossing thriller about a couple in crisis told from multiple viewpoints from the moment the wife, Erin, is a victim of a hit and run and going back over events from the last six months when the cracks started to show. The stories that Erin tells their therapist clearly seem so true to her yet they’re bizarre on occasions and it’s hard to understand her yet equally her husband, Will, sounds plausible so it’s difficult to understand how both are so believing of themselves. This is woven together extremely well and links past and present brilliantly, the characters are so complicated and the truth very believable. This had me glued to the story and I read it very quickly but that’s a great sign of a brilliant book!

Another fabulous read from Heidi Perks.
Who is lying? I changed my mind several times, everyone seems to have there own agenda......or so it seems.
I love it when i don't have a clue and the twists keep coming right up till the very end.
Try as i might i whizzed through far to quickly.
My thanks to netgalley and the publisher for my copy.