Book Review: The Life She Left Behind by Nicole Trope

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                                                                            Published July 1st 2020

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You tell him everything. The husband you adore, the father of your child, your best friend. He knows, just by looking at your sage-green eyes, when something is wrong. The two of you can communicate with a glance, or a touch of the hand. Except what if you can’t? What if your happy marriage has plastered over one huge lie? A lie you have even started to believe yourself, in order to survive? What if you have a secret, something you have hidden from your beloved husband and your strawberry-scented baby girl, to keep them safe? What if the guilt has kept you up, night after night, for as long as you can remember? What happens when suddenly, after twenty-eight years, that secret refuses to stay buried? What will you do now everyone you love, everything you cherish, is in harm’s way?

                                                                           MY REVIEW:

The Life She Left Behind: An absolutely gripping and heartbreaking page turner by Nicole Trope

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rachel has a great marriage and daughter. They have a new house that they just moved into. Her mother is in hospice and doesn't have long to live.
Then we find out about Rachel's past that she ran from and has kept secret for many years and it is now coming back to haunt her. A past that she wants to run away from again but has her husband and daughter to protect from her past.
This book moves back and forth from the past to the present and is easy to keep up with. Then we also are in the mind of someone else and what is going on with them. So many things kept me on my toes and wondering. Great twist as well. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
I received this ARC from NetGalley and Bookouture.

Nicole Trope

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Genre

Contemporary, Suspense, Fiction

Nicole Trope went to university to study Law but realised the error of her ways when she did very badly on her first law essay because-as her professor pointed out- ‘It’s not meant to be a story.’ She studied teaching instead and used her holidays to work on her writing career and complete a Masters’ degree in Children’s Literature. After the birth of her first child she stayed home full time to write and raise children, renovate houses and build a business with her husband.
The idea for her first published novel, The Boy under the Table, was so scary that it took a year for her to find the courage to write the emotional story. Her second novel, Three Hours Late, was voted one of Fifty Books you can’t put down in 2013 and her third novel, The Secrets in Silence, was The Australian Woman’s Weekly Book of the month for June 2014.
She lives in Sydney with her husband and three children

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