Nick Alexander

El padre de Becky no es sólo una figura ausente, es un misterio, un agujero negro en su pasado. Murió antes de que ella naciera y su madre lo ha convertido en un tema tabú que ha acabado distanciándola. Sin embargo, cuando Laura decide irse de vacaciones a Grecia, Beckay la acompaña con la intención de reforzar los lazos que las unen y de buscar la verdad.
A medida que pasan los días y disfrutan del sol de Santorini, Becky se da cuenta de que su madre no ha elegido ese destino por azar. No es la primera vez que visita la isla, e intuye que el viaje original alberga todas las respuestas que ignora de su pasado.
No obstante, los recuerdos de Laura están llenos de dolor y pena, mantenidos en secreto durante veinticinco años. Cuando la verdad empieza a vislumbrarse, ¿podrán madre e hija desterrar los fantasmas de antaño y disfrutar de la felicidad que ambas anhelan?… (mer)

This is an amazing book! Biggest positive surprise this year. I don't even recall how I got aware of it -- probably one of the newsletters, or a daily deal -- and it was a deal (read and listen) on KU, so after all, I couldn't lose anything.

I loved the book. There's Alice, the main character of the book. At first, I liked her. Then, I questioned her -- in the end, I understood her.

None of the main characters are --well, you know, heroes, or characters you love unconditionally. They're all with their strengths and flaws, and thus utterly believable.

It's not exactly an easy read for the beach. or something, there's a lot of domestic violence and abuse.
However, I experienced similar in my childhood, so maybe that is why this book tuck on my heartstrings so much.

Anyway, it is a great book, with a great narrator. I can't really comment on the accents, as I'm not a native speaker, but to me, it was perfectly read.… (mer)

If your first love came back to offer you everything you ever dreamed of, what would you do? Hannah is thirty-eight and the happily married mother of eleven-year-old Luke, the diamond in her world. Her marriage is reassuringly stable, and after fifteen years she has managed to push the wild dreams of youth from her mind and concentrate on the everyday satisfactions of here and now. The first half of her life hasn't been as exciting as she had hoped, but then, she reckons, whose has? When she succeeds in convincing husband Cliff to rent a villa in the south of France for a summer vacation with her sister Jill and gay friend Tristan, she's expecting little more than a pleasant few weeks with her family. But they each have their own baggage - their own secrets - ready to explode on this not-so-relaxing holiday in France. When a phone call at the villa announces the imminent arrival of a ghost from her past, the ambiance is transformed into a raging sea of jealousy as Hannah is forced to question everything she thought she knew and believed. But is she brave enough to take the life-changing decisions her future happiness requires?… (mer)