Okay so confession time. I’ve let this blog fall by the way side, I could come up with a number of excuses but instead let’s just get on with it!
I believe mum took this novel on holiday, on her return it went straight on to my ‘to read pile’ (honestly it’s huge!) partnered with the “I enjoyed it” statement from mum. Okay, so big expectations of this one then, as you know mine and mum’s opinions can sometimes differ. Well I’m pleased to say this time they didn’t, this book is genuinely good.
Focusing on the Amish Religion Ellie is thrown in at the deep end to defend a young Amish girl accused of suffocating her baby. Despicable I hear you say however not everything is what it seems.
Ellie has her reservations representing Katie but she takes a running leap into the culture when she volunteers to live with them so Katie can, for the mean time, avoid prison. No electricity and completely shut off from her ‘real world’ will Ellie cope?!
Katie is a strange character, the reader understands that she has had a baby, something she denies for a long time during the beginning of the novel. As her memory slowly comes back to her the reader wonders, did she actually smother her baby and then hide the body?
A dead sister, banished brother and aunt and a boyfriend that is struggling to look at her Katie slowly begins to admit how they baby came about. When visiting her brother at college she fell in love with his landlord and the rest was history. Having broken many rules and having lost her baby Katie believes that she must confess and be punished to help her in life but could the baby have died of natural causes? And how did it end up hidden?
A greatly written book with plenty of twists. Personally I suspected the dad, how about you?
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