An easy summertime read of Sarah’s adventures, who certainly needs saving as she spirals down a dark hole of bad decision-making.
Sarah’s life from the outside seems dull, married into an upper-class English family with a wishy-washy husband and judgemental friends; one can’t help wondering if this is why Sarah attracts adventure.
Family inheritance disputes, a wicked stepfather, a vulnerable elderly relative, and drugs at school are familiar scenarios. Still, the author goes one step further and takes her leading character out of her depth into deep murky waters—unlikeable characters are aplenty in this book, even Sarah, whose gullibility seems endless and, at times, irritating.
Although an easy read, the subjects tackled are deadly serious and realistic, the central pivot being Sarah’s elderly mother-in-law Mary who, with Alzheimer’s, sadly becomes a victim of her greedy family.