Kelly Rimmer
Reviewed by Helen
This is a moving, emotional, heart-wrenching story a story of two sisters and their lives together and apart, the link they share and love that they give each other even if there is pain and heartbreak along the way. When reading this one a box of tissues is going to be needed and I had to take some deep breathes to let a little frustration out here and there as well, oh but what a story one that I highly recommend.
Alexia and Annie are four years apart living happily with their parents, both are doing well at school until tragedy happens and they lose their Dad, their mother suffers severely with the loss and Lexie being the eldest becomes mother and big sister and keeps the family going, until their mother remarries and they end up in a religious sect here their lives take another different turn.
Lexie leaves as soon as she can and gets into university to become a Doctor, leaving Annie behind this changes her life and eventually she escapes to find Lexie, but Annie is a different person and the years apart have taken their toll on the girls and another separation begins. Annie spirals downwards with drug addiction and the writing that she loves so much gets left behind. Two years later Annie calls and she needs her sister badly she is pregnant an addict and both Annie and the baby are in danger, Lexie of course steps in to help but there is also her fiancé Sam to think of now too and soon the baby is born premature and suffering with NAS.
This story takes us into the world of a heroin addict and the people around them that get hurt as well, it discusses the issues and the law that can be unfair especially to pregnant woman who are suffering, it shows the horrors but it shows the strength and love that comes from family. Lexie and Annie along with Sam and beautiful baby Daisy have a lot to learn and go through, MS Rimmer has written a story that is a real page turner there is a lot of pain that these girls go through the baby included but there is so much love and in the end honesty that needs to come out. I did very much enjoy this story and the ending did leave me happy.
Alexia and Annie are four years apart living happily with their parents, both are doing well at school until tragedy happens and they lose their Dad, their mother suffers severely with the loss and Lexie being the eldest becomes mother and big sister and keeps the family going, until their mother remarries and they end up in a religious sect here their lives take another different turn.
Lexie leaves as soon as she can and gets into university to become a Doctor, leaving Annie behind this changes her life and eventually she escapes to find Lexie, but Annie is a different person and the years apart have taken their toll on the girls and another separation begins. Annie spirals downwards with drug addiction and the writing that she loves so much gets left behind. Two years later Annie calls and she needs her sister badly she is pregnant an addict and both Annie and the baby are in danger, Lexie of course steps in to help but there is also her fiancé Sam to think of now too and soon the baby is born premature and suffering with NAS.
This story takes us into the world of a heroin addict and the people around them that get hurt as well, it discusses the issues and the law that can be unfair especially to pregnant woman who are suffering, it shows the horrors but it shows the strength and love that comes from family. Lexie and Annie along with Sam and beautiful baby Daisy have a lot to learn and go through, MS Rimmer has written a story that is a real page turner there is a lot of pain that these girls go through the baby included but there is so much love and in the end honesty that needs to come out. I did very much enjoy this story and the ending did leave me happy.
5/5 stars for a fabulous story
Expected publication:
April 3rd 2018
by Graydon House
