The New Girl by Alison Stockham Published by Boldwood Books on April 9, 2024
Genres: Domestic Thriller, Psychological Fiction
Pages: 289
Format: ARC, eBook
Source: NetGalley, Rachel's Random Resources
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The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna’s perfect life apart.
A baby scan photo.
Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth.
Who sent it? And why?
Anna’s thoughts fall on Grace – the keen young woman Jon hired at their printing business. Something about Grace isn’t quite right. She asks too many questions and makes Anna nervous but she can’t work out why.
And she can’t deny she sees the way her husband looks at her.
All she knows is this baby scan might tear her marriage apart…
My Thoughts
Anna and Jon were set on having a child but faced disappointment and had no results for years! But Jon had no clue that Anna was hiding her secrets! Then, a piece of paper with a black-and-white photo of a scan of a baby came through her letterbox! Who’s pregnant? Why was it sent to her? Jon is cheating and got some girl knocked up?!
Enter Grace into the scene—the new girl Jon took on to work in their print shop! Anna smells a rat with Jon and Grace! This book has all the feels. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It is one I would highly recommend reading!
Thank you to Rachel’s Random Resources, Blodwood Books, and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this book.
About Alison Stockham
Alison Stockham’s debut novel, The Cuckoo Sister, was a top 10 bestseller and was also longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her second novel The Silent Friend was published in July 2023 and her third novel, The New Girl, will be published in April 2024.
From a background in film and television production, working in film dramas and then TV documentary production for the BBC and Channel 4, Alison is now the events coordinator for Cambridge Literary Festival. She lives in the city with her husband, their children and their cat, who keeps her company while she works on the next book.
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