Rejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is unravelling day by day.
Her life is a blur of exhaustion, until one evening a man running through the streets collides with her before quickly vanishing, dropping a journal at her feet.
Inside are Finn Matthews’ frantic, desperate words. He was convinced he was being hunted. Now he’s missing, and nobody is looking for him.
Rose decides to dedicate her sleepless nights to obsessively search for answers about what happened to Finn. Why did he think someone wanted to kill him? And why, in the midst of a string of murders, won’t the police investigate his disappearance?
The deeper Rose digs, the more determined she becomes to uncover the truth. But she has no idea what it will cost her…
My thoughts: What happened to Rose and her family is a truly awful tragedy, and she’s been vilified for it ever since, both by her family and by the wider community, although it was an accident and many would say she’s paid for it.
Her insomnia is utterly consuming, she just can’t sleep. I have it too, but nowhere near as badly and I felt for her. It affects your whole life, not getting proper sleep, and it can be really hard to find the right means and methods to stop it.
Finding the notebook with Finn’s desperate story gives her a focus and a project, but also leads her into danger, not least from the local police force. Finding herself more isolated than ever, she’s determined to get justice for Finn, even if she can never get it for herself.
A gripping and haunting tale of injustice, abuse, loneliness and one woman’s single minded determination to help a complete stranger.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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