Engaging and Intriguing book with good world building and character development, a pleasure to read, I would recommend this unreservedly

This was another great read from this author. I enjoyed the main concept of the storyline but I did find the whole character of the midwife and the mistakes made a little bit harrowing. I think the storyline was gripping and interesting and I would definitely recomend it.

Emily arrives at her father's house after one of the worse days of her life. A young French woman opens the door to her and says she is her father's carer. Knowing nothing about this Emily is very suspicious about the girl especially the way her father looks at her and surprisingly does what she tells him.
Her father won't speak to her about employing the girl and Emily becomes more suspicious.
Jane Corry writes a good suspense story and this one will have you guessing to the end. The characters are all believable and readable.

I did kind of enjoy this book and read it quite quickly. However that was really just to find out the ending, which I expected to be more exciting. I liked the story and the plot but I just didn’t like either of the main characters. I felt like I was waiting to find out about the inquiry for most of the book but it was really ignored for a long time.

Another brilliant book from Jane, like her other books, this one will keep you hooked and gripped and you won't be able to put the book down!

Emily , a midwife in London , makes a mistake at work that could possibly end in a fatality . She is called back to the hospital from home after finishing her shift . On the way back she is knocked off her bicycle by a car and receives a head injury . She decides to go home to recover , but keeps getting calls from the hospital to return for a meeting about the incident.
She then decides to return to her childhood home in Cornwall (Willowmead House) to stay with her father . On her return she finds her father has employed a french girl called Francoise in her early twenties as a carer .
Her father , Harold Gentle , is suffering from dementia and needs help but Emily thinks that Francoise is getting too close to her father , especially when she overhears gossip in the local shop that the 2 have been to the solicitor's office together . Suspecting that Francoise is after her father's money the two cannot get on especially when Harold gives Francoise items of his wife's jewellery . Harold dies and after his death there are suspicions he has had an overdose of his medication, both girls are viewed as suspects at first but they begin to bond after 2 family secrets come to light . All this mixed in with Harold's wartime memories as he is dying make this quite a good read.

I enjoyed this female-led story of secrets and lies.. Emily and Francoise, share a secret , but only one of them is aware of it. The pace of the reveals kept me gripped. The war sections seemed out of place at first and a little distracting, but are obviously necessary to the story. I have enjoyed Corry's previous books and look forward to her next.

Jane Corry specialises in secrets and lies and the damage they cause so, from the start, the title indicates that we are going to encounter a few of them!

Emily, the central character, starts off as a reliable midwife in London but quickly goes downhill after a few chance events and, within fifty pages, she’s as barmy as a box of frogs not opening letters from work, arguing with her sick dad’s carer who she thinks is after his money, falling out with her old boyfriend who she, mistakenly, thinks still loves his ex-wife and most of the people in the delightful little Cornish village where everyone knows everyone and gossip abounds.

The carer is mysterious, beautiful and French so she’s obviously called Françoise and, of course, she has a few secrets of her own and told a few porkies to get the job.

There’s a dog called Zorro so he can be mysterious as well, and a dodgy gardener who doesn’t trust Françoise but, then, who does? Unfortunately, it seems that the increasingly unwell dad dotes on her because he has his own secrets about his escapades in the Second World War and encounters with a French mademoiselle!

The plot gets more and more complicated because no one has an honest conversation and everyone either suspects what other people are thinking and planning, or confuses what they are doing. Then, more things happen to precipitate more disasters and more misunderstandings before Jane Corry unravels it all.

There is something weird about this process because this is not like in a detective novel where the clues were there all along if you only knew where to look. Instead, a series of unexpected events, red herrings and uncovered clues bring everything to a timely conclusion.

If you are fan of Jane Corry then this will be highly satisfying and you do have to admire how she keeps everything rolling along and most people, except for the dead ones, seem quite happy at the end. However, there were one too many coincidences for me, the French connection was all a bit of a cliché and if Emily had behaved more sensibly and asked the right questions from the start the book could have been a lot shorter.

Emily made a mistake, a mistake midwives can’t afford to make. Escaping to her dad’s home in Devon to regroup, she finds his dementia has been worsening and he has hired a carer. Francoise can’t believe that Emily would leave her struggling father, she would never do that if Harold was her own father. Each woman has secrets and one of them will kill to keep it that way.. ✨

I read this with @whatkelreads as we were both lucky enough to get this from @netgalley 📖 I have enjoyed Jane’s books previously and although this book started off well, I felt by the second half it got muddled. I couldn’t warm to any of the characters and at times wanted to shake Emily for her actions. Although this book is only a 3 🌟 for me, I look forward to reading more of Jane’s books in the future ✨

An interesting story which kept you guessing. The dual time line story had plenty of twists and turns.

I literally just put this down. It seemed very simple at the start but then started popping in a few twists - I really wasn’t sure for a while who the good guys and bad guys were in this and what their motivations were, whether there were scams afoot and who might be lying to who. I liked the flashbacks and the development of the main characters. The ending was satisfying - I won’t say how because I don’t want to spoil it. I enjoyed the book more as it went on because of the twists and I’d definitely read other books by this author.

This book was a bit hit and miss for me. It started with a huge cliffhanger then totally ignored it for just about the rest of the book. I think because you were looking for a resolution to that cliffhanger that it somewhat disengaged you from the book. I wasn't too keen on the flashbacks either - sometimes they work in a book, this time I didn't think they did. Yes the book had secrets but equally it seemed to be full of lies/mis-directions too which I didn't really enjoy.

I really enjoyed this book, i was hooked from the beginning... as the storyline unfolds it reveals the secrets that are kept and have been kept in the background.... Harold Emily's father and the beautiful Francoise.... the second world war is a connection tying the past and the present. But there is more to unfold
This is a tale of love and revenge and will hold you until the end of the book

I really loved this book, I really enjoy Jane Corry's books, really easy to read, fantastic storyline, great characters...a book you don't want to put down.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this novel. We are presented with Emily, a midwife who has something happen to her on shift that changes the entire course of her life. She seeks solace in her Cornish family home only to find that there have been changes there that she wasn't aware of.

Throughout the course of the book, Emily's secrets unravel, as do her father's and other characters involved in the story. It's an interesting concept and really kept me 'hooked' to find out more!

I did, however, feel at some points the story was dragged out a little, and at times I found myself losing interest in parts of the characters back-stories that weren't fully explained, or took a long time to be fully explained. The writing was good, and plot of the story was definitely interesting, although potentially a little predictable at times. I would suggest this as a great book for those who like a novel with lots of twists and turns, especially a great read when getting away from it all!

Was excited to read this book and it started well but I think it loses it’s way somewhat in the middle.

I was intrigued by Emily at the start and really wanted to know more about her but when the other parts of the plot came in I felt it diluted things a bit and I didn’t see where it was going but not really in a good way.

Still enjoyed the read but not my favourite book.

Emma is suspended from her job and returns to her family home in Cornwall. There she finds her father is ill and being looked after by a beautiful young Frenchwoman, who seems to have become very close to him in the short time she's been there. Emma worries that Francoise is a gold digger, and when her father takes a downturn and dies more quickly than was expected she fears the worst. Meanwhile Francoise has her own suspicions about Emma. Who's telling lies? Relevant facts from the father's early life filter out but you will be guessing to the end who is straight and who's not.

Loved this story about Emily, who has been suspended from work, we do not quite know the reason until the end. This in itself keeps us in suspense. Bet there is more. She goes back to the family home to seek refuge with her widowed father. and when she arrives finds out he is being looked after by a mysterious new carer. There is much more suspense, twists and turns to come with a background of family secrets. I really warmed to the characters and enjoyed the story. A lovely bit of escapism for these troubled time. I would highly recommend this book.

I love this authors books and this one was no exception once I had started reading I was hooked and stayed up into the night to finish it. This is a standalone thriller with lots of twists and turns and moments
To make you hold your breath and gasp as you turn the page.

I liked that the story connected events of the past present and future and that these secrets from
The past all intertwined to make the story as did how the characters and their secrets all developed and unravelled as the story unfolded.

This was so much more than just a domestic thriller as also included aspects of a who did it crime read.

This was a total page turner and am already eagerly awaiting this authors next book.

A fantastic new thriller from Jane Corry.

At the beginning this book felt slow and I wasn't sure if it was going to pick up the pace but it definitely did.

I wasn't convinced on the plot at first. It seemed pretty tame at first but it definitely became more interesting as the story went along.

This book is full of twists and turns. I've not read a book in a long time which kept me on my toes as much as this one did.

The plot was really engaging. I was constantly trying to guess what was going to happen next but it was impossible to keep up.

It was a very engaging and interesting thriller which kept me hooked till the very very end.

I've read a few of Jane Corry's books before but having read this one, it definitely makes me want go back and read her other books, highly recommend!