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A review by helenpickett
The Perfect Life by Nuala Ellwood
5.0
This is the story of Ness. Ness is in her early 30’s and shares a flat with her best friend Lottie. She has a job that she loves and her big sister who she meets up with regularly.
We find out that despite her happiness, her mum died suddenly when she was young and she sought solace in the series of books she read as a child.
The book is written as a dual time frame of then and now and it seems to make perfect sense with it all fitting together nicely.
We follow Ness as her life falls apart after she meets a new man and believed that he was as head over heels in love as she is, so much so that she leaves the comfort of her best friend to move in with him and then dreamt of owning their own place. All is not as it seems and after falling out with her best friend, gaslighting and giving up her dream job, she seeks solace in looking at lovely houses beyond her budget and allowing herself to dream.
This is a page turner full of murder, gaslighting and stalking that kept me wandering how and who right to the end.
With thanks to NetGalley for this preview read. #Netgalley
We find out that despite her happiness, her mum died suddenly when she was young and she sought solace in the series of books she read as a child.
The book is written as a dual time frame of then and now and it seems to make perfect sense with it all fitting together nicely.
We follow Ness as her life falls apart after she meets a new man and believed that he was as head over heels in love as she is, so much so that she leaves the comfort of her best friend to move in with him and then dreamt of owning their own place. All is not as it seems and after falling out with her best friend, gaslighting and giving up her dream job, she seeks solace in looking at lovely houses beyond her budget and allowing herself to dream.
This is a page turner full of murder, gaslighting and stalking that kept me wandering how and who right to the end.
With thanks to NetGalley for this preview read. #Netgalley