Daniel is the perfect husband.
Rory is the perfect brother.
Serena is the perfect sister-in-law.
And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare.
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. What she is not expecting is Rachel.
Extroverted, brash, unsettling single mother-to-be Rachel, who just wants to be Helen's friend. Who just wants to get know Helen and her friends and her family. Who just wants to know everything about them. Every little secret...
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Dear Helen, I know you asked me not to write to you again. AFTERWARDS, HMP BOWOOD, 20 NOVEMBER 2019
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(@BloomsburyBooks, 1 April 2021, ebook, 464 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @BorrowBox)
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I loved Greenwich Park. It's the kind of thriller I enjoy the most. I loved the fact the chapters alternate the POV between Helen, her sister-in-law Serena and her friend Katie with occasional flashbacks to a dark secret from the past. Rachel comes across as the villain, the author making it clear there's something shady about her. But then an unexpected twist happens and she's suddenly someone you have sympathy for. I loved the twists and turns and misdirection.
