I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

This story focusses on Jess, a GP on leave from her job, who rents a farm cottage for a month with her two small children and her husband Rob, who is working on a film script. Their neighbours in the farm cottages include Helen and James, who have children of similar ages. The first half of the book felt long, with 'present day' sections slowed down by chapters describing how Jess came to be taking a leave of absence ('the mistakes she made'). The second half sped up quite a lot and a whole series of 'issues' reared their heads, which it would be a spoiler to list. Suffice it to say there were many, and the surprisingly obtuse Jess is in for a few surprises (although given her training, at least one of them should have been obvious to her).. I didn't love this; I didn't warm to Jess, and the author had a habit of ending chapters with Kathy Reichs-like statements along the lines of '...something I would later come to regret'.