The Thing About Clare by Imogen Clark
Product description:
A dying wish. A devastating secret. Should the truth really stay buried?
The four Bliss siblings have a loving but complicated bond, but when their mother, Dorothy, dies seemingly without a will, this relationship is put to the test. As the mourning siblings try to make sense of the situation, one of them is caught with a secret: before she died, Dorothy entrusted her favourite daughter with her will and a letter—and told her to destroy them both.
Of course, it was Anna their mother turned to for this mission. Miriam, the eldest, is far too sensible; Sebastian, the baby, too sensitive; and Clare, the middle child, has always been too rebellious to rely on, and long ago cut herself out of her siblings’ lives.
But what Anna finds in the documents could change everything. Do the other siblings not deserve to know what it is about them that their mother was so desperate to hide? And if it is revealed, will the Bliss family ever be the same again?
My Review
A secret that could break this family apart.
The variety of individuals in the family and how they cope with each other was fascinating, and I enjoyed the viewpoint of each person being presented for different events.
There were very few mistakes in the writing, and none of them were distracting from the story.
Despite the complexity of what was in their lives I could follow the plot quite easily through all the family drama as it happened.
Miriam was my favourite character as she took control of her siblings, trying to make things flow smoothly and her mother’s life easier.
I would recommend this book to people who like family drama.
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