Missing Pieces by Laura Pearson

Missing Pieces by Laura Pearson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

What if the one thing that kept you together was breaking you apart?

All Linda wants to do is sleep. She won’t look at her husband. She can’t stand her daughter. And she doesn’t want to have this baby. Having this baby means moving on, and she just wants to go back to before. Before their family was torn apart, before the blame was placed.

Alienated by their own guilt and struggling to cope, the Sadler family unravels. They grow up, grow apart, never talking about their terrible secret.

That is until Linda’s daughter finds out she’s pregnant. Before she brings another Sadler into the world, Bea needs to know what happened twenty-five years ago. What did they keep from her? What happened that couldn’t be fixed?

A devastating mistake, a lifetime of consequences. How can you repair something broken if pieces are missing?

This is a well written book with some beautifully crafted passages describing feelings and heart aching memories that come out of a tragedy. The book is written in 2 parts that happen about 20 years or so apart. The characters are multi faceted and cleverly layered allowing their relationships to come through in an intriguing way. Despite all this I felt a little detached from the characters and it made reading the book as just a story that I had no emotional connection with. It was also very depressing and sombre in places making it very heavy in places. The tragedy that happened affected those that were involved for over 20 years and although there was closure and the promise of new beginnings it still left me feeling dismal and empty at the end. Maybe it just wasn't my type of genre but I didn't enjoy it, it has to have at least 3 stars for the excellent writing but honestly I wouldn't put it high on my recommendation list.

I would like to thank the publisher for sending this in exchange for an honest review.