The Accident

Title: The Accident
Author: C.L. Taylor
Type: Paperback
Read: 18th July - 19th July 2016
Rating: 4/5
Published: 10th April 2014 by Avon Harper Collins

Sue Jackson has the perfect family but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a very dark reality.

Retracing her daughter’s steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte’s diary and is forced to head deep into Charlotte’s private world. In her hunt for evidence, Sue begins to mistrust everyone close to her daughter and she’s forced to look further, into the depths of her own past.There is a lot that Sue doesn’t know about Charlotte’s life. But then there’s a lot that Charlotte doesn’t know about Sue’s …

So after starting this year reading all of Cally's previous books, not in order (thankfully no sequals), i finally decided to read her debut, The Accident.

We are taken into the lives of the Jacksons, whos daughter Sophie has recently stepped infront of a bus. She's currently in a coma and no-one really understands why. Her father believes it was an accident, her mother Sue, believes her daughter done this on purpose. But the reasoning behind this, is what is driving Sue crazy. It's also giving her flashbacks to a past she liked to forget.

The story is told from Sue's view and we are taken from present day where sue is a mother and trying her hardest to be brave and get Sophie out of her coma, to the past, where it's Sue, life before Sophie.

I enjoyed the twists in the story and I did enjoy Sues hard work trying to figure out what happened to her daughter. I did feel sorry for her that no-one else in the family or otherwise woudl believe her. They thought she'd gone crazy again. But i think its just proof that a mother will not accept anything when it comes to their child. But then again, what secrets do children keep from their mothers?

It's a great debut and her follow on books are a cracker!

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