I loved this book. This is not a romance but boy is it a love story.
It is walkthrough of Emily’s life, how she got to this point in her life and why.
We look at Emily’s life and love from her perspective. We look at her childhood and her friendship and then relationship with her next door neighbour and school friend. They are both devastated by splitting up at college when both of them thought the other had ended their relationship.
Emily meets Jack – who although beautiful and rich is also manipulative, damaged and cruel.
The story follows Emily through this marriage, her children and how she extricates herself from it. As she is finally doing this Gen comes back into her life.
Emily then tries to navigate her life to provide what she wants for herself and her children.
Needless to say when she looks back on things her adult take on it is not the same as the view of the child/young person she was when she experienced it.
There is much information in this book which took research – Emily talks/writes incessantly about the Greek gods, the lifestyle of the rich, grief and of course manipulation and coercive control.
I really enjoyed it.