The Marriage Mender - Linda Green

Genre: General Fiction

Release Date: Expected 22nd July 2021

Alison spends all day fixing broken relationships - marriages that have carelessly fallen apart and seem like they'll never be put back together. So when her husbands ex, Lydia, walks back into their life after disappearing without a trace and demands to see their son, Alison knows she has the tools to handle anything that comes her way. Her marriage is solid, she isn't worried at all. But soon enough, cracks start to form and it seems that Lydia could hold secrets that might break their family apart entirely. Can Alison really mend her own marriage, or are some things just beyond repair?

Starting off in relative domestic bliss and slowly burning into a real-life drama and the breakdown of Alisons whole life. Her husband, her daughter Tilda, and Stepson Josh are all caught in the crossfire and struggling in their own ways, showing just how quickly fire can spread between a family from the roots to the leaves. On the surface this was just the daily lives of an average blended family but with something not quite right lurking around the corner.

With snippets from anonymous but suspiciously familiar perspectives, disjointed little insights that were never fully resolved and never fully explained. I thought I knew going into this story exactly what to expect, but every single time I did something else strange was thrown my way and left me fitting the messy peices of the puzzle together.

This was a beautifully written family who had my heart, with a sobering insight into the many ways relationships can break when you least expect it.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Linda Green, Quercus and Netgalley for this ARC in return for an honest review.

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