The Other Child

Title: The Other Child
Author: Lucy Atkins
Type: Paperback
Read: 25th April - 19th May 2016
Rating: 3/5
Published: 4th June 2015 by Quercus

When Tess is sent to photograph Greg, a high profile paediatric heart surgeon, she sees something troubled in his face, and feels instantly drawn to him. Their relationship quickly deepens, but then Tess, single mother to nine-year-old Joe, falls pregnant, and Greg is offered the job of a lifetime back in his hometown of Boston. Before she knows it, Tess is married, and relocating to the States. But life in an affluent American suburb proves anything but straightforward.

Unsettling things keep happening in the large rented house, Joe is distressed, the next-door neighbours are in crisis, and Tess is sure that someone is watching her. Greg's work is all-consuming and, as the baby's birth looms, he grows more and more unreachable. Something is very wrong, Tess knows it, and then she makes a jaw-dropping discovery . . 

I had high hopes for this book. It did start of really well, it was gripping and capitvated you. But gradually as the story evolved it just kinda fell flat. I think as a lot happens at the start and then the end you're left wondering why there was a middle.

The stroy of Tess who falls in love and marries Greg who then moves them across to the US where he is an high profile heart surgeon. But something doesn't feel right and Tess is stuck in a place she doesn't know, with someone who is never around. When things begin to happen around them Tess's fears are pretty much ignored by Greg who can solve everything.

As a reader, we begin to put the pieces together much quicker than Tess and personally i wanted her to up, leave and take the kids as fast as she could, quicker than what she was doing.

Part of me is still confused at the whole story, which is pretty much reflected in the ratings. It's a shame, because it did start off really good.

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