The Last Piece is my first book from Imogen Clark but hopefully, even though this one wasn't for me it will not be my last. This book is about Cecily who recieves a letter and decides out of the blue to travel to a Greek Island. The writing was good but overall I didn't enjoy the plot or characters.
Unfortunately I couldn't seem to connect to any of the characters and really disliked both Cecily and her estranged daughter Marnie, who years earlier she gave up for adoption. Marnie felt more like a rebellious and sulky teenager then a fifty something woman.

This is an emotional character driven novel.
The pacing of this book is so slow and for a large chunk of time nothing happens. Due to this, it lost my interest a little.
It portrays family dynamics so well

This was a sweet little book and a fast read, though I maybe liked it less the more I read. It deals with a difficult family situation where there are no easy answers, but it was hard to like Marnie despite her tough circumstances. and clearly other characters in the bo9 agree with me!

I especially enjoyed the character of Norman.

Do you keep Big secrets from your family that come back to bite you, can the family be held together, twist and turns, excellent read, enjoyed it immensely.

This was a nice, quick read. A good family drama with a nice setting. The writing kept me turning pages and wanting to know why Cecily left.

An interesting perspective of a mom who is looking back and trying to connect with a choice she made as a teenager. It looks at her daughters' perspectives as well. Overall this was a good read.

When I think of women's fiction, I think of books just like this one, that gives all the feels. This is a perfect book to snuggle up with on any day.

A drama about a busy family whose lives are thrown into chaos when a secret is revealed. Not my kind of read but others will like it.

Not my regular book. There wasn't a murder. Lol. This is family drama and was just okay to me.

Cecily has kept a secret from her girls all there life. She gets a letter and off to Greece she goes. Her three girls are surprised by her sudden journey, but Norman, their dad is fine with it. When she comes back, she tries to incorporate it into their lives but with disaster. There is stuff going on with each daughter as well. So that adds into the book.

This is just not normally the time of book I read. That being said it was a quick read. If you like books with a little family drama, then this is probably the book for you. It was very realistic as I could see a lot of the things happening within any family.

Thanks to Netgalley, Amazon UK Publishing and Clark for a copy of the Kindle Version of the book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Not quite the book I was expecting and so took me a few attempts to get through. Not really my style and I found it difficult to connect with.

Their mother, not known for spontaneity, picks up and leaves for Greece, leaving her husband and three daughters looking for answers. What they discover will change all of their lives forever.

An interesting story of family drama and how the whole family deal with it. Well written with good characters and a story a bit different to ones that I normally read so very enjoyable

This is a beautifully written tale of a long kept family secret and the ramifications of the secret finally being revealed. I wanted to love the book but I ended up kind of not leaning one way or the other about it. My struggle came from my difficulty engaging with the characters. So while I didn't love it, I certainly enjoyed the premise of it.

I loved this, well written and kept me entertained.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

Quick read on love and forgiveness. The family drama between the main characters is amazing and made the book. This also provides the growth of the mother during the book and the fallout of her truth. The development of characters could have been better, but overall a quick, fun read.

Not awful, but not great either. It's one of those books that you expect to be great based on the synopsis, but it ends up being ok at best. The mystery is revealed within a few pages, and the rest of the book is more based on the aftermath of that. But it didn't really grab me at all. The characters aren't very well developed and are all largely unlikeable, the plot is dull and not very engaging, and everything just felt very dragged out. Not for me I'm afraid.

Disclaimer - I was fortunate enough to be provided with an advance reading copy of this book by NetGalley. This has not affected my review in any way, and all opinions are my own.

A beautifully written family drama. This was just brilliant. I loved the characters and the plots that interweaved but also just got into my mind and made read on. And on! Fabulous.

I knew right away what the big secret was but that didn't detract from the wonderful storytelling. I enjoyed reading about the family and how each of them reacted to the secret.

I thought this book was well written but I found it hard to connect with the characters within it. Maybe it was the emotional subject of adoption that was not for me, but I found it hard to finish.

Many thanks to netgalley and Imogen Clark for the advanced copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

This story was an interesting take on adoption. It is told from three perspectives, that of the mother who gave her child up for adoption, the adoptee, and the subsequent children of the mother. It was well written and emotionally stirring particularly from the mother and adoptees point of view.

At fifteen Cecile becomes pregnant. Her parents push her to give the baby up for adoption because of her age. Years later, she receives a letter from that child suggesting a meeting. Cecile and Marnie have different expectations and how they play out is the meat of the book.