On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys opened their pool to all the village for charity. Louise was there, so were her daughters Amelia and Katie - and so, glaring at her resentfully, was her estranged husband Barnaby. This was supposed to be his day with the girls. But Louise ignored his angry glowers - it wasn't her fault they'd wanted to come swimming with her, was it? While the children splashed and shrieked in the cool, blue waters, she lay blissfully back in the sun and dreamed of Cassian, the charismatic new lawyer in her life. The day seemed perfect.
But suddenly the perfect day was shattered, as tragedy struck. And the consequences of a terrible accident develop into a dram of recriminations, jealousy and legal power-play, in which Louise found herself pulled in three directions at once. Friendships crumbled, the village was split, and the needs of a child become secondary to a dangerous contest in which the grown-ups were engaged.
I have literally been reading this book on and off since my last book review, and I have only just realized that the front cover is meant to look like a swimming pool with the reflection of the diving board :')
Anyway, I will start off by saying that Madeleine Wickham has written my favourite books ever, the Confessions Of A Shopaholic series but under the name Sophie Kinsella, so I was expecting this book to be really great. I was actually rather disappointed with it if I am honest.
This was Madeleine's first ever published book so I wasn't expecting anything as good as the COAS series, but I still thought it would be better than it was.
After reading the blurb before I started reading the book, I had already guessed what happened in the book. And to the most of it, I was right.
Things I like about this book: The storyline on the whole is great. The little twists add a great atmosphere to the novel. The court case (I can't really say why I like it...otherwise it will ruin it incase after reading this you still want to read the book...dayum!)
Things I don't like about this book: The fact that I figured out most of what was going to happen within reading the blurb and the first couple chapters. The whole Alexis and Daisy storyline, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REST OF THE BOOK!?!?! I DON'T GET IT!!!! The fact that after the accident, Amelia isn't mentioned for like 5 chapters. The whole ending of the book.
So yeah :/ I don't really know how to review this book as I didn't really like it. At parts I did find it hard to put down, it did pull me into the story at times, but at other times I didn't really care less. It might have also been to do with the fact I've been doing a lot the past few weeks and so haven't had time to read so much and so have been reading a chapter like every few days, so haven't got pulled into it as much.
I'm not going to say 'STAY CLEAR OF THIS BOOK, IT IS AWFUL' because that's not the truth. I have read worse books in my life but this just wasn't as good as I had wanted it to be.
Sorry Madeleine :/
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