Many thanks to NetGalley, St Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for gifting me both a digital and audio ARC of this debut book by Katie Bishop and wonderfully narrated by Annabel Scholey - 4 stars!
Rachel is 17 years old and on holiday on an island in Greece. There she meets Alistair, an older man with whom she quickly becomes obsessed. She abandons her plans to return home to university and stays working at the bar with a group of friends, who spend their days and nights drinking and going to parties. In present day, Rachel is married to Tom and they take a holiday on the same island, where a chance meeting with one of the girls from her past reignites her obsession with Alistair and makes her rethink her past recollections of that time.
This was a wonderful debut that explored really tough topics. I liked the "then" and "now" versions of the story so that we can see what happened and how it affected Rachel in her present life. This should definitely be a cautionary tale to young women, who can be so vulnerable and find it hard to say no. Rachel was not a real likable character - her behavior when she was young is understandable, but her experience seemed to keep her in that perpetual state of bad decisions. Anxious to read more from this author!
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