I Let You Go: The Richard & Judy Bestseller

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The wooden floor is stained from the lumps of clay that drop from my wheel, firmly placed in the center of the room, where I can move around it and stand back to view my work with a critical eye.

The boy grins back and tips up his head to taste the rain; wet eyelashes forming dark clumps around his eyes. They wiped their feet and walked up the narrow hallway, pushing past an overloaded coat rack, beneath which sat a pair of child’s red wellies, neatly placed beside an adult pair.Then, before I have even opened my eyes, there is a rush of noise in my head, like an underground train. She was an impatient driver; tutting when a red light held them back, and craning her neck to see past a holdup. Using the same words at the end of I LET YOU GO is a gentle reminder that, although it is Jenna’s story we have followed throughout this novel, at its heart is a five year old boy who lost his life.

The curtains, bought to match the cushions; the artwork, some of my own, some I found in galleries and loved too much to leave behind. I had read other reviews so I persevered with the long prose on the Welsh coastline and the book changed direction in part 2. If your book club is discussing I LET YOU GO, please don’t just circulate the link – there will always be one or two who haven’t read the book yet! The policing aspect was a bit annoying, too many acronyms for me, and also the teaming of the DI and other detective on her way up was a bit forced.

I press the heels of my palms into my temples as though I can make the images subside through brute force alone, but still they come, thick and fast, as if without them I might forget. If he thought too long about how it must feel to watch your child die in your arms, he would be no use to anyone, not least to Jacob and his mother. If you’ve read and liked Paula Hawkins’ ‘The Girl on the Train,’ which was excellent, you’ll like this too. Farther up the road a second paper-suited figure was examining one of the huge trees that lined the road.

Jacob is a 5 year old little boy who lets go of his mother's hand for a brief moment and is killed in a hit and run in the prologue of this gripping police procedural. If it's general chit chat you're after, please do follow me on Instagram, where I go to avoid writing, and to share snippets of my life in rural Wales, complete with teenagers, dogs and Pete the goat. Little more than a shed to the casual observer, it is where I come to think, to work, and to escape. Congratulations to Clare Mackintosh on an impressive, addictive debut, and thank you to The Berkley Publishing Group for introducing me to a new thriller favorite. Jenna the main character is desperate to escape from her past after a tragic hit-and-run accident destroys her life.

Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, and have spent a combined total of 64 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. Vivid storytelling with persuasive characters and a schemingly intelligent narrative - and one prize-winning plot-twist ― S. The story involves a hit and run killing of a 5-year-old boy and is told from the POV of 3 characters—our main protagonist Jenna, the lead detective on the case Ray, and a man named Ian.

I stayed up late last night to finish this one - which speaks volumes about how much I was enjoying it, as I value my sleep more than anything else in life!A storming psychological thriller that has everything: breathtaking twists , great pace and pitch-perfect characterisation . I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. Even when you think she’s pulled the last piece out from under you, and surely her story can’t withstand another twist, she does it.