WHAT DID YOU SEE? WHAT DID YOU DO?
‘Gripping, poignant…I read it in one sitting’ ROSAMUND LUPTON‘Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist!’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS____________________________Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie’s world is torn apart.The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the … Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing.
When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter’s funeral.
What really happened that day at the river?
Where is Maggie’s husband?
And why can’t she shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow,
her daughter is still alive?
An emotional page-turner with characters you really care about, from the Top Ten Bestselling author of My Sister’s Bones, this brilliantly gripping thriller is perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go and Lisa Jewell’s Watching You.
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WHAT AUTHORS AND READERS ARE SAYING:
‘Makes you question everything you thought you knew’ EMMA KAVANAGH
‘Wow! What a fantastic book that completely sucked me in. 5 stars’ ***** Amazon reviewer
‘A stunning book. Compelling, unsettling and powerful this is a book that will stay with me for a long time’ C. L. Taylor
‘This story absolutely blew me away’ ***** Amazon reviewer
‘A clever, twisty plot that takes psychological mind games to a new level. Nuala Ellwood has done it again!’ Jane Corry
‘A masterpiece’ ***** Amazon reviewer
‘Rivals The Girl on the Train (and beats it for style)’ The Guardian
‘This clever, multi- layered novel is simply stunning’ Dinah Jefferies
‘A gripping rollercoaster ride of a thriller. Keeps you in there right to the last page’ Christobel Kent
‘A twisty psychological thriller. I raced through it in one sitting!’ Lucy Atkins
‘A dark, intense, multi-layered thriller that twists and turns until the last page’ Tammy Cohen
‘Twisty and unpredictable. Kept me guessing until the end’ Karen Cleveland
‘An accomplished and page-turning thriller…it’s impossible to guess where it’s going next’ Nicholas Searle
‘A raw, shocking, and serpentine mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end’ Nicolas Obregon, author of Blue Light Yokohama
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Oh My: this book was just so good.
I was hooked and invested from the very instance I started this journey and what a ride this was.
The basic premise here: Maggie wakes up from a coma after an accident that has left her daughter dead.
The car slipped into the river after the handbrake wasn’t engaged properly and despite Maggies best efforts Elspeth drowns and is pronounced dead at the scene.
When Maggie eventually gains consciousness her daughter’s funeral has past and her husband is missing.
To further confound events their marital home has been sold seven years precious and their joint bank account has been cleared.
Maggie is alone adrift without an anchor and she has no idea where her husband has disappeared off to, she is also suffering from amnesia and can’t remember what actually happened the day of that terrible accident.
So there’s a lot going on here: So many strands of the narrative waiting patiently until eventually, a picture starts to emerge where all pieces of the puzzle connect.
The flashbacks of Maggies returning memories like a trail of breadcrumbs marking the forward path.
A deepening mystery in regards to Sean and his secrets and Maggie: what is she hiding from, what dark secret from her past is infecting her present.
I also felt such a sense of sympathy at poor Maggie’s confusion and current bewilderment at her present situation: not only has she lost Elspeth but her life has imploded so dramatically leaving her essentially alone.
But the bit I liked most of all about this was that child dialogue and it’s utter poignancy.
It was like a beacon of hope that eventually was quashed by the realism and disappointment of life.
That voice for me resounded so loudly through “Day of the Accident” essentially stealing the whole show.
So this was psychological suspense at its finest a gripping page-turner that I read in one sitting.
I actually thought I had worked this one out and though I had guessed some I was still blown away by that finale.
This one is a definite thumbs up from me it was such an amazing read.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of Day of the Accident.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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This was intense and a little disturbing and really good. Fast paced and very interesting, I couldn’t stop reading and read this whole book in one sitting. There was so much going wrong in Maggie’s life and also in Julia’s that it was hard to read sometimes. The letters written by a child, hurting so much, made me want to cry. And, almost till the end, I hoped that there would be a happy ending for Maggie and Elspeth. And there was a ray of sunshine in the end, but just not like I expected. Really great read!
So good I read it twice. Once because I couldn’t wait for the story to unfold, and a second time because I wanted to see the clues I’d missed. The story opens with Maggie waking from a coma with no memory of where she is or what happened. Then the tragedy unfolds: her daughter is dead and Maggie nearly died trying to save her. But where is her husband? What was she doing by the river and why on earth would she have locked her daughter in the car? Is Maggie guilty or innocent?
Ellwood’s lovely prose and deft characterisation kept me hooked as Maggie recovered pieces of that day and tried to discover the answers to the questions that plagued her. A brilliant debut!
*With the ebook I bought the audio upgrade narrated by Tara Fitzgerald. Well worth the few extra dollars.