A Good Mother by Sam Hepburn

 

I see my son’s scooter lying in the undergrowth. Time stands still. Where is he? Deafened by my own heartbeat, I keep looking but I can’t see him. This is all my fault. My punishment for the things I did, and the things I should have done. 

All I ever wanted was to keep my son safe. I married the perfect husband, built the perfect home. I’ve tried to give Finn the life I never had. 

Everything was going so well. Until now. 

It’s just small things at first – a punctured tyre, an open gate that I'm sure I locked. But then I see the photograph of two young girls, and a night I’ve tried to forget. 

I know I have to stop pretending that nothing is happening. I can’t escape the truth.

 Someone knows my secret. But what do they want from me? 

A gripping and suspenseful thriller with a jaw-dropping twist, fans of Friend Request, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down.

What Did I Think

A new author to me but I can see she has written quite a few books and seems popular.

I would call this one a slow burn - the story gradually built up the more you read drawing you further and further in. I liked the way the main characters past came back into her seemingly perfect life to upset the applecart.

This book kept my interst all the way through but I could see how some of the issues covered could be a trigger for some readers. As my first book by this author I was impressed and I will go on to read more of her books in the future.

Sam Hepburn read modern languages at Cambridge University and, after a brief spell in advertising, joined the BBC as a General Trainee. She worked as a documentary maker for twenty years and was one of the commissioners for the launch of BBC Four. Since then, she has written several books, including psychological thrillers Gone Before and Her Perfect Life, and novels for young adults and children. She won the 2017 CWA Margery Allingham Short Story award and has been nominated for several other prestigious prizes, including the CILIP Carnegie Medal for her YA thrillers. 

Sam has worked and travelled widely in Africa and the Middle East, and is a trustee of the Kenyan’s children’s charity, I Afrika. She now lives in London with her husband and children. 

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