Review: Greenwich Park By Katherine Faulkner

July 2, 2024, 5:25 pm

Now this is spoiler free but if you haven't read the book, I might suggest stopping here, even though I give no names or specific events away, I COULD NOT BUY ONE HALF OF THE PREMISE OF THE BOOK AT THE END!! Katie is also on-off dating Helen's other brother Charlie, who is generally considered a somewhat less driven individual. For those that make it through, however, there is ample reward. Message 2: Carol/Bonadie. But Helen was never that person and Rachel's attention, although at times a little suffocating, appeals to Helen. Katherine Faulkner's Greenwich Park, told from three perspectives, centers on a pregnant woman who meets another mom-to-be who couldn't be more different from her. I just love a thriller that grabs me unreservedly like a dog with a bone and does not let go. Unfortunately, they are also a bit slow. Serena evidences that she's pulled many of the invisible strings that drive the events of the novel in its final moments. It's almost as though she can't work out whether a potential successful pregnancy after years of trying is something to celebrate or only an awful burden she carries alone. Now both bereft of and worried over her once-friend—on top of her other pregnancy and mental health concerns—she feels lonelier than ever, and quickly begins to yearn for delivery: I start to become desperate for it–for the drama of birth, the cataclysm everyone talks about–the end of one part of your life, the beginning of another. Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery books for an ARC of this book in return for my honest review. Unfortunately, Helen and Serena are completely unlikeable from the beginning.

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We all bloody survived! " Even Helen's friends and family find the woman unnerving. Publisher & Release: Gallery Books, 01/25/22. In the first 150 pages of the novel, strange and foreboding signs bring themselves, one by one, to the doorstep of her perfect home. I think some of her lack of response could be put down to the drugging which would have caused diminished focus. Read an excerpt from the book below, or listen to it above, as read by Laura Kirman. All in all, "Greenwich Park" is worth reading past its sluggish first half. She holds the wine- glass aloft to toast her own sentiment. When Rachel sits next to her they start talking.

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Then reconvene and discuss the accuracy of their description, as well as what you've discovered from how each group understands the scenario that was performed. When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class, she is expecting her loving architect husband to arrive soon after, along with her confident, charming brother Rory and his pregnant wife, the effortlessly beautiful Serena. That is until single mum-to-be Rachel arrives and takes an instant shine to lonely Helen. That was a wallop alright but left a cliffhanger of how he located her. Old money, green ivy. Early in Greenwich Park, Katie, who works as a reporter, cinches an exclusive interview with the survivor of a closing sexual assault case just as the threads in the relationships between Rachel, Helen, and Helen's family begin to twist. Booklist (starred review). I just wish there was someone I cared about. From the get go, you could tell something was up with Daniel but she just was so oblivious. The girl who came in late appears at my side.

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Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange. If you love books like Lisa Jewell's THEN SHE WAS GONE and/or WATCHING YOU, books which similarly expose the terrible secrets of seemingly "perfect" people, you will absolutely love this element of GREENWICH PARK. I did think that Daniel's involvement was was inevitable but had not really considered Selena until the business about the drugs came up. Most interestingly, it also discusses culpability, and the cost both of lacking compassion and of maintaining appearances above all else. Katie is a journalist who's been distracted from all the drama in Helen's life by her latest assignment, covering a rape trial up in Cambridge. The characters were multi faceted and details kept emerging as the story unfolded. I found this a bit confusing without the names of each character at the beginning of each chapter because the writing is all so similar. The novel begins with a mysterious letter sent from prison to Helen, who is soon revealed to be the story's protagonist.

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This exceptional domestic suspense novel delivers a delicious blend of paranoia-inducing plotting and engaging, entertaining interpersonal secrets and drama. I end up closing my mouth again, like a fish drowning in air. Faulkner's strengths, however, do not lie only in her brilliant pacing. Subscribe to our email newsletter. There's a more juicy detail to be told and I thoroughly enjoyed the reveal. Are the roses in bloom? Never mind, you can team up with me, can't you? " Following the death of her parents, Helen and Daniel now live in their former home in Greenwich Park which they are having renovated before their baby arrives. And when Helen meets Rachel, the reader will quickly begin to fear that Helen might never see that dream come true. Pacey and suspenseful with a nice touch of satire. " I feel like a broken record saying this on here so frequently, but I find myself very picky with thrillers lately. Helen is a very weak woman who seems to have little agency over her life, things seem to happy to her and she wilfully ignores the huge, massive, red flags that something very bad is happening. Rachel slithers her way into their lives and little by little she manages to get her feet firmly under the table in Helen and Daniel's house with both of them too polite to ask her to leave.

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It becomes obvious from the start that nothing is as perfect as Helen thinks which I thought very intriguing. Loved Greenwich Park—right amount of suspense and twists and turns. Rachel doesn't seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Katherine wrote her debut novel while on maternity leave, juggling a newborn with completing the Faber Academy novel-writing course. The story is told from each of the characters point of view which allows the reader to get to know more about them. When Rachel goes missing the police get involved and everyone seems to have a reason to want Rachel gone. It's a deliciously suspenseful psychological thriller perfect for poolside reading or anywhere else. Peeling back the curtain on picture-perfect lives.

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Except for Katie's friend the police officer. Top reviews from United Kingdom. I never felt much sympathy for any of the characters (well maybe Katie, the journalist) and the jeopardy built as I feared, but I have to say the resolution was worth the wait. Heck what did the victim want, what did they think would happen?? I did enjoy the 3-person point of view this story was told in. I felt like giving her a shake at times as she just didn't seem to be getting what was going on.

I did feel like parts of it were quite predictable, I also felt like some of the details at the very end I was left slightly unsatisfied by the explanation. Rachel is also on her own. Jess: my impression of Helen throughout was that she was extremely naive which could result from being truly clueless or I suppose in hindsight by being in serious denial. I was skeptical when I started this book. The sun so warm, the scent of the grass so sweet?

I think you would find the food here the hardest thing. "A fantastically addictive read. I suppose I just lost control.