The Wrong Mother
Sophie Hannah
OK, so it wasn't me. After putting this book down and not being able to force myself to pick it up again, I checked other reviews. Glad to see that I wasn't the only one that thought this book was a little too twisty and didn't really make any sense from the beginning.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH A woman is watching a report on television of the death of a mother and daughter; apparently both had died at the mother's hand. Also on the screen is the surviving member of the family, a widower described as Mark Bretherick. Watching with her husband, the woman, Sally, has to bite back the words that spring to her lips: this man is not Mark Bretherick! How does she know? Because she had enjoyed a brief affair with the real possessor of that name some time before -- an affair (needless to say) she has not revealed to her husband. Sally is forced to hang on to her secret, and she anonymously informs the police that all is not as it appears to be in this case. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH
Sorry, maybe next time, but for now, this book just doesn't work for me.
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