She lives in my old home, she looks like me, she dresses like me… And now she wants my life.
Naomi is devastated when the sale of the apartment falls through, her dreams of moving to an amazing ‘forever home’ nearby with her family are momentarily dashed.
But then a sweet-natured single mother named Summer appears, announcing her intention to buy Naomi’s old apartment.
And all of a sudden, it looks like Naomi might get her new house after all.
At first, it feels like Summer’s saved her life. But as soon as the sale goes through, Summer starts turning up at Naomi’s new house. She’s enrolled her child in Naomi’s daughter’s class. She’s dressing like Naomi. She’s suddenly best friends with all her friends… And then Naomi discovers she’s got a pretty little doll’s house. One that looks just like Naomi’s new home.
Naomi wants to believe she’s just imagining things. What could Summer possibly want? And how far will she go to take everything that Naomi has?
A totally page-turning psychological thriller, that fans of Lisa Jewell, Sue Watson and Daniel Hurst will be unable to put down.
Natasha is an internationally bestselling author of psychological fiction, including The Missing Husband and The Woman Next Door. She trained and worked as a journalist for many years before moving into communications in the charity and education sectors.
She decided to pursue her lifelong dream of writing a novel in 2019, when she was approaching her 40th birthday and realized it was time to stop procrastinating. Her debut, The Missing Husband, was released in May 2021 and she went on to write three more novels, which are published by Bloodhound Books. Her first novel with Boldwood Books is The Fortune Teller.
Natasha lives in North London with her husband, two
daughters and two rescue cats.
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My thoughts: This was very good, while at first I was on Naomi’s side, some of the things she was worrying about did seem slightly paranoid and maybe an overactive imagination – but then other things happened and once she finally had someone else who saw through Summer as well, then I was back on Team Naomi is Not Crazy!
It didn’t help that some of her concerns were about the friendship group of her seven-year-old daughter, children are fickle and friends change all the time, so it did seem a bit off to be so worried.
But Summer’s strange behaviour and the sullen nature of daughter Luna did ring a few bells. I used to work with kids and still remember all the things we were trained to look out for, there were definitely some concerns there.
The twists started coming thick and fast. Some of Summer’s plays were straight out of the mean girl handbook, but others were a bit scary. She seemed to have multiple sides to her character.
There are some great WTF? moments and the ending was truly troubling. Summer’s mind needs unscrambling and fast! Naomi’s woes may not be over yet. Truly clever crime fiction.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
ramblingmads 
great review!! now im interested in reading this
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