The Girl I Used to Know by Faith Hogan
Published: 1st Deceber 2017
Publisher: Aria
Pages: 298
Available in Paperback and on Kindle
Blurb
Amanda King and Tess Cuffe are strangers who share the same Georgian
house, but their lives couldn't be more different.
Amanda seems to have it all, absolute perfection. She projects all the
accoutrements of a lady who lunches. Sadly, the reality is a soulless home, an
unfaithful husband and a very lonely heart.
By comparison, in the basement flat, unwanted tenant Tess has spent a
lifetime hiding and shutting her heart to love.
It takes a bossy doctor, a handsome gardener, a pushy teenager and an
abandoned cat to show these two women that sometimes letting go is the first
step to moving forward and new friendships can come from the most unlikely
situations.
Review
Review
Tess Cuffe and Amanda King have shared the same house for
almost twenty years and yet they know nothing about each other. Amanda has
lived in the top three floors of their Georgian townhouse with husband David
and their children Casper and Robyn. Tess has lived alone in the basement flat,
an unwanted tenant that Amanda and David have battled to be rid of. But both of these women have one thing in
common they’re both lonely and as the new year beckons they both begin to
question their life choices and slowly the hostility between them begins to
thaw.
Helped along by a stray cat, a sexy gardener named Carlos, a
meddling Doctor and Amanda’s caring daughter Robyn and the pair begin to form an unlikely friendship
as they set about resolving the mistakes from their past.
This was an incredibly well written story and I can’t
believe Faith Hogan is an author I’ve not come across before, her story-telling
is so heartfelt and engaging. I loved the journey that Tess and Amanda went on
in this book. At the beginning Tess comes across as a grumpy and rather
sarcastic old woman and Amanda as a preened and polished airhead, luckily through
the flashbacks to their earlier years we realise this is not the case. Both
women have deeply hidden passions which have been crushed by unthoughtful men
in their lives.
This is a wonderful story of friendship, family, love, loss
and betrayal. It’s a story about second chances and how it’s never too late to
change your life, no matter how old you are. It’s about forgiveness and following
your dreams. It’s one of those books where you find yourself just reading one
more chapter because you just need to know what happens next. I loved every page of this book and can’t wait
to devour more of Faith Hogan’s writing.
Thank you so much to Melanie at Aria for sending me a copy
to review and inviting me to be part of this blog tour.
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