When Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, a divorced father of two, and begins a new job. She's looking forward to a fresh start and simple life. Kyle's five-year-old twins, Summer and Jaxon, have other ideas and quickly adopt Kendra as their new mother - mainly because she lets them eat marshmallows for breakfast. Kendra eventually becomes a part of their lives, even though she's hiding a painful secret that makes her keep everyone - especially children - at arm's length. Then Kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and things fall apart: she can't sleep, she can't eat, she's suspended from work, and the kids are taken away by their mother. The only way to fix things is to confess to the terrible mistake she made all those years ago. But that's something she swore never to do ...


ETA: The book starts its travelling to Elhamisabel soon.

Got it, arrived this now in the mail. :-)

Thanks!!!

I liked this book.
I wasn't very keen to read the flashback parts but all in all it was a good book. I think better than "My Best Friend's Girl".

Sent to Into-the-Blue.

received with many thanks!!

Update:
I have read this in August 2011 for the "Down the Mount TBR challenge" on the German forum. The theme for August was "Something sweet". From the cover I thought it was some kind of chicklit but it turned out to be something quite serious. At first I could not really get into the story, it started like a crime story but then turned kind of boring. It did get much interesting further on though and in the end I couldn't stop reading. I found Kendra quite sympathic but did not like Kyle and his family too much in the beginning, which changed later on though. I did not like the ending about Kendra. Just can't understand her decision!

The book will travel to one of the winners of the "Agatha Christie European multi winner sweepstake". Congrats for being one of the winners. I hope you will enjoy the book.

Received in the Multi-Winner sweepstake. Thank you Into-the-Blue - looks good!

Exhibit C(i) in the Great Warnings Debate - proof that a sugary pink cover doesn't guarantee that the book is free of violence, rape, misogynistic slurs, etc. Although this does become apparent in the first few lines of the prologue, so one would be reasonably likely to work this out before buying. It's not like you're suddenly getting slapped round the face with it in chapter fifty-three, or whatever. And actually Koomson deals with the whole lot in a refreshingly sensible way, gives her heroine supportive friends, has no patience with apologists, etc.

Having got past the prologue, the main challenge was ploughing through the first few chapters, which were sunk in a quicksand of detailed and ineffective description. (If, for example, someone is snatching up a scarf to run out of the door in a panic, she won't stop to talk about how the scarf is stripy, will she?) This slowed the whole thing down, and it wasn't even funny over-description. Not a cerulean orb in sight. (There was a cerulean sky later in the book, though, so I wasn't too deprived.)

Overall, a sensitive look at a difficult issue, but could really have done with better editing.

Sending to the winner of the EU Birthday Sweepstake. Enjoy!

The book arrived today, thank you so much! From the cover it certainly looks something I might enjoy and reading the comments made it sound even more tempting. We'll see what I'll think about it. :)

Sorry, but now it has to go to my Mt. TBR, at least for a little while.

Doing some Spring cleaning and I think it's time to let go of huge amount of books that have been in my bookshelf for years. Books, that I have picked up many times but yet put them back. Books, that have moved houses quite many times. Books, that represent a genre I've grown out of past years.

The book will travel to Tindelitinda. Hope you'll enjoy it!

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Thanks for the pile of books, and this one. The story sounds interesting, exciting and maybe romantic too.