This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

Unfortunately this book was not for me, it was a bit slower than I would like and it just didn't hold my attention. I am sure other people will love it!

Let me be honest. I wanted to read this based on the cover. When I finished, I was like what the heck did I just read! Wow! Heartbreaking, gripping, intense.

Following a tragedy all Linda wants to do is sleep. She doesn’t want to have the baby, can’t stand her daughter or look at her husband. The baby means moving on and all she wants to do is turn back time to before that awful day. The family grow up together but apart never talking about the secret. Bea finds out she’s pregnant and wants to know what happened that fateful day 25 years ago but will she be able to get her remaining family to open up.
This book had me gripped within the first few pages. One of the first books in a long time to do that. I couldn’t put it down as it was so gripping. I highly recommend this book and would happily read it again.
Thank you to netgalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

Omg talk about a roller coaster read wow this book kept me on the edge of my seat threw out I just couldn't put it down this writer keeps you hooked and once your hooked your not letting go I found this book thrilling the characters were fantastic and well thought out and the little clues all the way threw keep you guessing until the end this book stays with you long after you close the book this book is well worth the read I promise you wont be disappointed

This sad story underlines the huge impact and long term effects the death of a young child has on a family. The actual details are not revealed immediately and this makes you want to keep on reading to find out. Cleverly and beautifully written, giving everyone's perspective, this is an emotional read. Thank you to Laura Pearson, Net Galley and Agora Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I felt like i was in the book, that is how good the writing is and the characters come alive. I enjoy books like this immensely. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the arc of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving this book in this manner had no bearing on this review.

Unfortunately I just could not get into this book. It may be one for other readers, but I was unable to finish it.

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I wasn’t able to read this book when it was first gifted to me but after reading the hard copy I am adding my review here.

My goodness, what a rollercoaster of emotions. If you love a book that will make you cry, grab the tissues! This one is for you! Pearson did such a wonderful job creating this story, each character and their emotions felt so real to me. I know I will be thinking of this book for a long time to come.

Missing Pieces is an emotional and beautiful debut by Laura Pearson. A terribly sad tale of traumatic loss and its impact on a family

A devastating mistake with a lifetime of consequences. Wow. I really enjoyed reading this debut by Laura Pearson.

The task of repopulating the senior library has been an exciting and daunting task aS in a boarding school our aim is to encourage all members of the community to read. Because of this, I have been searching down a wide and diverse range of books to read that will entice a wide cross-section of the school to come in, browse and find books that they love.
Books like this will ensure that the senior students in the school see the library as a diverse, modern and exciting place with books that speak to them and they want to recommend to their friends, classmates, teachers and tutors.
It is an engrossing and exciting read with fully-formed characters and a plot that ensures that it's hard to look away. It is as far from formulaic as it is possible to be and kept me up far too late in order to finish it. I immediately wanted to read all of this writer's other books as I loved their voice and found that it really drew me into the story and made me think about it even when I'd stepped away from this tale.
This is a thought-provoking read which I'm sure will be a popular and well-read addition to our new library; I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to read it and I know that the students are going to absolutely love it too!

A very moving novel about the loss of a young child and the tragedy around this. Told through multiple narrators and also different times, it shows how it also affects the next generation. A difficult read at times, but definitely worth a read.

Thanks to NetGalley for the copy of this to review.

Beautiful book that deals with the loss of a child in such a sensitive way. It explores it through the parents and then, twenty five years later, through the sister who needs to make sense of it all. A lovely read.

Read Dec 18

For some reason I thought that this was a thriller book. As it is, I’m not sure how to categorise it. Linda is expecting a new baby. It will be her third daughter, that is until the worst happens. Linda is devastated and struggles to cope with new baby Bea.

Twenty-five years later Bea is pregnant herself and determined to find out the truth about her family’s troubled past before having her own child. I enjoyed the book, especially Bea’s growing relationship with her sister, but overall the plot moved a little too slowly. There were sections where not much happened at all.

Not the easiest of reads, this story follows a family in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy- the death of a 3 year old. It’s heartbreakingly emotional and best read with a full box of tissues at your side.

A book that is both heart-breaking and hopeful all at the same time is very hard to achieve - but Lauran Pearson has pulled it off with Missing Pieces.

I enjoyed this story. It was very interesting and I loved that it kept me guessing. A worthwhile read!

This was dreary, dismal, depressing. The focus of the story is a terrible tragedy that befalls the Sadler family; fair enough, but the pace is slow, irritatingly so, and there's little to evoke any sympathy, empathy or affection for any of the characters.

The death of a three-year-old has a devastating effect on the whole family…seemingly for twenty-five years. The circumstances of the tragedy aren't actually revealed until about 94% into the book, so a bit of commitment is required if you want to find out the tragedy behind the tragedy…and I very nearly gave up. The characters are dull, self-centred and barely carried me through the fog of colourlessness.

However, it's very clear Pearson can write: articulately and intensely. But the loss that forms the heart of this novel is handled too heavily and monotonously. Even when I reached the great reveal…finally…finally!...I had a touch of the 'oh, is that it?'. Just a tad anticlimactic.

Promising debut for Pearson, without doubt, but I really don't like having to work so hard to connect with characters. Or...not...in this case.

Heartbreaking! This was such an emotional book it it took my breath away in places as you could almost feel the pain and loss that Linda and later Tom and Esme all went through.
So pleased that despite everything the end of the book was a great ending, not rushed and everything seemed to fit together.
Looking forward to reading more books by Laura Pearson.
Thank you netgalley.