Book info

• Title Because of You
• Author Dawn French
• Year 2020
• Genre Contemporary

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with empty arms. Seventeen years later, the gods who keep watch over broken-hearted mothers wreak mighty revenge, and the truth starts rolling, terrible and deep, toward them all. The power of mother-love will be tested to its limits. Perhaps beyond...

Thoughts

Oh how I love Dawn French. I probably wouldn’t have stuck this with if it wasn’t written by lovely Dawn because I’m not so interested in stories around babies and the crime at the heart of this is just unfathomable to me. But stick with it I did and I’m glad, because the characters are so well drawn, the humanity of the situation always at the fore, and the ending an absolutely gutwrenching twist. Brilliantly done.

Rating: 5 / 5