A gripping thriller that I couldn’t put down. This book reeled me in from the start. I recommend this book to all thriller fans.

I enjoyed this very much. It’s not great literature, perhaps, but a good solid piece of storytelling, with interesting characters and an unpredictable plot. It explores the political and religious complexities of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, at the time of the hunger strikes, and I found it gave an atmospheric portrait of the tensions within the opposing communities. It verges on the melodramatic at times – but then these were indeed dramatic times – and on the whole I found the characters fairly convincing. It concentrates in the main on two families, and their interconnected stories are used to good effect to describe how difficult life was in that time and at that place. A good read.

Gripping read from the start. Real page turner! Highly recommended

This book is very well written. It captures the Northern Ireland in the early 80's at the depths of the Troubles. brilliantly. . The story revolves around Rose- a Catholic girl involved with Connor a Protestant boy. When Connor is attacked Rose's mother throws her out and she takes refuge with Mary, Connor's mother- awful woman!!. When Rose's best friend Bronwen discovers that Danny, her husband, organised the attack she turns him in..
Although most of the book is told in the third person, there is a lot told by Danny, who is part of the Hunger Strike in the Maze
.I think it will take a while to shake off the atmosphere of menace and bleakness J M Hewitt creates. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this disturbing book