The Dartmoor Bookworm

  Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn’t always that way… Kerry Hayes  is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past. Noah Martineau  is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back. When Kerry contacts Noah , the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever. By turns funny and moving,  Half a World Away  is a story that will stay with you long after you read its final page. Again I read this last year but haven't been on here and updated it.  My first Mike Gayle book and It was a good one. The story of broken families reuniting at a dark time in their life and offering support like no other. ...

I was sent a free copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review. I read Josie's debut novel "One Day in December" and loved it, it was memorising from the start and so when I saw this up for review on Netgalley I jumped at the chance.  It had a lot of live up to. The story is based, obviously, around Lydia Bird, who at the start of the book looses her fiancé, Freddie in a car crash on her birthday. The story then follows Lydia as she goes through the path of grief and how she deals with it. Her life takes two routes, her everyday life grieving for Freddie and a life in which Freddie still exists. After battling sleep in the first few weeks after the accident she starts taking sleeping pills which take her to her other world, where the plans she and Freddie had are still played out and she goes between the two worlds in the rest of the book. Lydia has strong relationships with her sister and her mother and all three characters are really well writt...