I gave 5 stars to Katherine Webb’s first book The Legacy, and had high hopes for this new one. I loved the blurb and the first 100 or so pages, which were full of tantalising hints as to the long-lost secret.

But then it lost my interest. It spent a long time getting nowhere fast, feeling more like padding than plotting. I enjoyed the reveal, which I’ll admit took me by surprise, but by then it was too late for a revival. I normally love duel-timeline books, but that style just didn’t work here. So little time was spent in the present-day story, that it became completely unnecessary, a pointless interruption.

After such a fabulous first book, this was a very disappointing read :-(