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JUST ONE MORE NIGHT. THEN I'LL END IT.
Alison has it all: loving husband, daughter and a career on the rise - she's about to defend her first murder case. Why is she risking everything for someone who treats her with no respect?

I DID IT. I KILLED HIM.
Alison's client stabber her husband: she wants to plead guilty. Any yet something about her story feels off...

I'M WATCHING YOU. I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Someone knows Alison's secret. Someone who wants to make her pay for what she's done and who won't stop until she's lost everything...

At Aye Write (Glasgow's Book Festival), Harriet Tyce said she had tried to write an unlikeable central character however I didn’t think she was thoroughly unlikeable, I mostly thought she was a stupid cow and spend a lot of the early part of the book telling her “don’t do it!” And I questioned things like, why did she move out so easily? She infuriated me but I was constantly shocked and surprised.

The protagonist, Alison has just been handed her first murder case, and she is hoping that it will take her career to the next level, but as she is caught up in trying to prove her new client’s innocence, her own family life begins to crumble. What threw a spanner in the works for me was the fact the murderer in her case was called Madeline Smith, also a Glaswegian woman that murdered her lover in the 19th century. So was this Madeline Smith a murderer too, or not? It ended with an incredible plot twist that I didn’t see coming.

I believe there is already an option for the film and TV rights.

This is on a wishlist so going to the uncon for a RABCK.

Thanks for the birthday presents and another wishlist book. I think I wished for it when you told me how good it was!

Reading this book is like watching a car crash about to happen, in slow motion. Carl annoyed me from the start with his gaslighting and lack of self awareness (as a therapist). Lots of tension built up by the end. I enjoyed the details of the court cases and how they played out.

Going to russbaum with a bonus book when I make my weekly visit to the post office.

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And received, safe and sound.
It will go on my TBR pile that's so tall I can't reach the top so if you want it - ask and you may be pleasantly surprised.

I now have a paperback copy too so this one needs a new home.
Posted from London, UK to Derby UK, to nefertari as part of the GB Wishlist Tag Game. Welcome and enjoy.

Thank you for the wishlist tag book and the bookmark, which arrived safely today. Looking forward to reading this.

I really liked the writing style of Blood Orange - the book is definitely a page-turner - and I thought the Madeleine plot and the court case detail was interesting. Alison was a bit hit and miss for me: how could she see abuse so clearly in her work and not in her own relationships? Overall I liked the book and enjoyed reading it, but I felt it was let down by the ending, which was unnecessarily bizarre.

On its way to Kinedi!

Arrived in the post today, thank you so much for sending book and cute card to me.

Certainly a page turner, this one.
I took an immediate dislike to Alison and Patrick and same as others I questioned why Alison was so blind and stupid not to see the similarities between her client's abusive marriage and her own affair with Patrick.
But a bit like Alison who couldn't say no to Patrick, I couldn't say no to turning page after page to find out where this was all going but eventually things click into place and the opening prologue makes sense in a gruesome way.
A gripping read for a debut novel !

Sending off as a RBACK for a sweepstake winner

Thank you so much for the book & postcard! Looks a like an interesting read. It was such a lovely surprise to come home from work to a selection of book shaped parcels!