The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances

The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Laura Cavendish can’t wait to meet the woman who’s won her son’s affection. Despite a successful career in television and a long, prosperous marriage, Laura’s world revolves around kind, talented Daniel. She pictures his new girlfriend, Cherry, becoming a close friend and confidante . . . one day, even a daughter-in-law.

But although Cherry is beautiful and amiable, Laura can’t warm to her. There’s something about the possessive way she touches Daniel, the little lies Laura detects. Cherry seems to resent Laura, driving a wedge between mother and son—until one day Daniel is injured in a terrible accident. Six months later, with Daniel still in a coma and facing death, Laura makes a fateful decision—and carries out an astonishing deceit.

A handsome doctor for a husband, with a trust fund and a family villa in St. Tropez—it was all supposed to be Cherry’s. Now, instead of living with Daniel in his impeccable home, she’s jobless and broke. And then Cherry discovers Laura’s stunning deception. But Cherry is too clever, too ambitious to let her get away with it. She’s already transformed herself into Daniel’s dream woman. Now she’ll become Laura’s worst nightmare.

My thoughts. Laura did try to like Cherry at first but didn't trust her and she made mistakes and should have known it would lead to problems. Cherry is so demented that I wanted something to happen to her from the start. I was disturbed by the fact Laura had a cat, which she professed to love so much. But they had a fox hanging around the yard through the whole book and yet she continued to let the cat out. That just pissed me off. Plus with Cherry acting the way she did then I would not have let my cat outside either. Being a cat lover, this part did upset me on Laura's behavior. Laura also has all this money, and a career but a dead marriage so why is she hanging on, not like she can't afford to live on her own.


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