When Jane Douglas returns to the Shetland Islands, she thinks she has escaped the dark shadows of her childhood. She carves out a simple life on the bleak, windswept island, working at the salmon fishery and spending quiet evenings at home. And for the first time in her life, she's happy.
Then the body of Jane's long-missing mother is found in a flooded quarry. Her mother disappeared when Jane was a teenager, following the death of Jane's baby brother. Jane has spent her life running from her past, living in fear that she has inherited her mother's demons. Now, Jane must face what actually happened on that fateful, tragic day twenty years ago...
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There is something floating in Crowholt Quarry. PROLOGUE
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(@HarperCollinsUK, 23 June 2022, ebook, 272 pages, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley)
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I thought Still Water was an incredible book. I cried so much reading this. I loved the way the book moves from past to present gradually revealing how the past tragedy is affecting Jane's life now. I love non-linear narratives. I also loved the way suspense is built. You don't find out the truth about Sylvia (Jane's mother) and that tragic day until almost at the end of the book which makes you keep turning pages until all the threads connect. I also loved the setting and the way the author brings Shetland to life. I can't recommend this enough.
