And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.
Serena has been lying for years.
Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her. But whose lies are going to end in tragedy?
And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable...
So will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves?
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Does anyone remember the so-called Ice Cream Girls? THE ICE CREAM GIRLS! WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
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(@headlinepg, 9 July 2020, 560 pages, hardback, bought from @AmazonUK)
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I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy this. The Ice Cream Girls is one of my favourite Koomson books and I thought the TV series was great. I didn't see where the story could go. Of course, there were a lot of unresolved issues in the book but the same can be said of most fiction. It took a few chapters for me to start enjoying the book and then I was back in the place I always end up with Koomson's books, enthralled, absorbed and completely lost. The chapters are narrated by Poppy, Serena and Serena's daughter Verity and the chapters alternate between them and a few are narrated by Poppy's brother Logan as well, but much later in the book and there are some flashbacks to events in the first book. I loved the way the book explores how the media frenzy of The Ice Cream Girls is still affecting both Poppy and Serena, thirty years later. Poppy, as an ex-con, is still stared at when people realise who she is and everyone treats her differently. Serena is still seen as the one who got away with murder. It seems like both women can't move on from these terrible events. This book is full of unreliable narration and misdirection as Koomson explores the dark truth about Verity and Logan's relationship.
