I Let You Go: The Richard & Judy Bestseller

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I cannot properly explain my opinion without spoilers and because my opinion is not in line with most, I need to go there. I found myself not totally engrossed until I reached "Part two", but once I hit that I couldn't put this down! They have a fight on the cliff tops and "unfortunately" Ian slips and falls off the cliffs and down the 200ft drop into the sea.

Ian took what was going so well and brought everything back into the muddy world of those books I mentioned earlier. The squeal of wet brakes, the thud of a five-year-old boy hitting the windscreen and the spin of his body before it slams on to the road. Congratulations to Clare Mackintosh on an impressive, addictive debut, and thank you to The Berkley Publishing Group for introducing me to a new thriller favorite. The last quarter or so of the novel had me flicking through the pages as fast as I could go, as I wanted to see how it all panned out.Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, and have spent a combined total of 64 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. To say that Part Two of the book is like a rollercoaster ride doesn’t do Mackintosh’s writing justice.

The floor lies unseen beneath a carpet of broken clay; rounded halves of pots ending abruptly in angry jagged peaks. This also leads Jenna into the arms of a gentle local vet Patrick, who offers her friendship, as well as love. Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies. The wooden shelves are all empty, my desk swept clear of work, and the tiny figurines on the window ledge are unrecognizable, crushed into shards that glisten in the sunlight. If your book club is discussing I LET YOU GO, please don’t just circulate the link – there will always be one or two who haven’t read the book yet!From the reaction on Brian’s face, it was clear this was the last thing he wanted to do, but he stood up and left the room with Kate, no doubt to moan to her about CID pulling rank. Jenna Gray is a sculptor, who one day packs up her life in Bristol and makes the move to a remote coastal village in Wales. The reader is presented with various perspectives on the book’s central crime: a hit and run accident where a young boy is killed, and the driver never stops to help. Jenna’s husband’s voice does not make an entry in later in the novel but Mackintosh does this for strategic plot reasons. The pain in my hand has been overshadowed by a headache that blinds me if I move my head too fast, and as I peel myself from the bed every muscle aches.

Engine whining in admonishment, the car makes two, three, four attempts to turn in the narrow street, scraping in its haste against one of the huge sycamore sentries lining the road. These characters offer the reader an alternative perspective of what it is like to work behind the scenes of a hit and run, sadly involving a small child. Hers is a perspective laden with emotion, a broken woman who walks out of her home, out of her life, to the comforts of the unknown, to forget the sounds and sights that haunt her every minute. If you can’t get I Let You Go out of your head, don’t miss Clare Mackintosh’s stunning new thrillers The Last Party and A Game of Lies, featuring the unforgettable DC Ffion Morgan.I Let You Go, by Clare Mackintosh was published in Australia on the 12th May 2015 Little Brown Group via Hachette Australia. I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. I Let You Go is a chilling tale with characters that are so well drawn, you can feel their pleasure and pain on each step of the journey. Leaning forward to warm the boy with her body, she holds her coat open over them both, its hem drinking surface water from the road. However, I feel like with this book I need to dive into the plot and discuss more of the details because, man, I had a really complicated relationship with this book.

I came to the conclusion that Mackintosh presents the reader with a realistic portrayal of an event that is every parent’s nightmare. One side of the tent was open, and inside they could see a crime scene investigator on her hands and knees, swabbing at something unseen. This develops into a continued relationship between the two of them where they do finally get married.

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I absolutely refuse to spoil the twists found in Part Two, so I’m going to keep my Part Two praise limited to generalities.