The Hiding Place was a very enjoyable read. I liked the story being told from two different sides, going backwards and forwards in time. It is a sad story which you know can’t end happily but it doesn’t stop you hoping that happy ending for the characters.

This is an intriguing premise and I challenge any mystery buff to read the blurb and not want to dive in. The story is great but the executive suffers a little from lack of pace. While I enjoyed having more than one character’s perspective, at times things got a bit convoluted and I had to go back and check where things were up to. The strong plot is enough to carry the book through these concerns.

This book is a slow and steady, and quite emotional read, as the history of 24 Harrington Gardens and its inhabitants is revealed along with an unsolved mystery from years ago. You only get a glimpse of the people who live in the flats lives both now and in the past but you feel like you know them all just enough to understand them. It is a really beautifully and sensitively written story of love, and sadness and the human need to know who you are and seek out the truth.

A house full of different people, all with a secret of their own. Marina wants to get to the bottom of the story of her birth mother, so she rents a flat in the house and proceeds to unravel some of the secrets.
Interesting characters, a disparate group.
Quite interesting but not a fast moving book. Just a little slow, but quite well written.
Loved the bookshop.

I thought the story was average at best. Very similar to other stories in this genre. Did not finish sorry

The story of Marina who was abandoned as a baby and is trying to find out the circumstances that lead up to this.
I was really looking forward to reading this book but I found it really slow and it failed to hold my interest.
Thank you to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars
Having read one of Jenny Quintana's previous books, I was excited to give this one a read.
The blurb also sounded right up my street.
However, this was a book of two halves for me.
At the beginning, it immediately captured my attention and was fast paced and moving quickly as the story started to build.
Then it started to get a bit slow, eventually dragging on until the end.
It just started to feel quite long and winded, which was disappointing, given how invested I was in the story at the beginning.
The ending was also pretty poor, as all that build up ultimately came to nothing.
Certain things also felt unresolved.
Another issue of mine with The Hiding Place was how annoying and almost throw-away the male characters were in this. The female characters were much better developed and had you caring about them, in comparison.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The past can't stay hidden forever especially when someone is seeking their identity!

A great mystery told in alternating chapters from the perspective of Connie a pregnant teenager in 1964 and Marina in 1992.

Really enjoyed reading this one and watching as the long buried secrets and truths start to surface.

This was a slightly disappointing read. There were just too many people to keep
up with and it wasn’t as gripping as I would have liked. It’s not a bad read over all but definitely not the author’s best.

A very gripping tale, Marina knows she is adopted and that her birth and abandonment caused much publicity but she wants to know more. When a flat becomes available in the very building she was left as a newborn she decides to try and piece together the story of her birth mother. With the help of some of the occupants she gets the answers she needs.

Not a bad read at all! There were elements that were really predictable but it was written really well and was interesting. This wasn’t a showstopper but definitely worth a read

I received this book through net galley in exchange for an honest review.

This book tugged at my heart strings, an abandoned baby now grown up wants to find out where she came from and what happened to her mother.

We follow marina and her mother Connie and hear both sides of the story.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

This starts out feeling more like a family drama to me,as Marina tries to find out more about her birth parents,having been found abandoned in a house in streatham as a tiny baby.

But as the book progresses,it becomes more of a mystery book,told over two timelines,with a lot of the main characters from the 60's still around to answer questions in the 90s.

As always with these things,you guess at what might be coming,and the tiny clues dropped leave you feeling satisfied you're on the right track.
An enjoyable and little bit of an emotional read

Thank you NetGalley for this advanced copy. The description for this book really drew me in, but I just couldn't get into it. I gave up fairly quickly. I tried to skip ahead a few times and still couldn't find anything to grab my attention.

This wonderful mystery had me scared and fascinated at the same time. The mystery surrounding the heroine’s birth and the reason someone might be scared of her finding out the truth make for an incredible whodunit.

I loved 'The Missing Girl's one of Quintana's previous books, but sadly this one just didn't do it for me. It was an interesting look at a different era (the 1960s) when unwed mothers were considered shameful, and teenage unwed mothers even more so, and men were to be spared from women's problems and responsibilities. As such many women were forced into back street abortions or hiding their pregnancies and difficult labours before giving their child up for adoption. However, disappointingly I also found it a slow burn, with little mystery and a limited cast of characters, none of whom I really warmed to.

this is very good .Marina wants to find her mother Connie . Marina was named buy the nurse at the hospital where she was left on the doorstep she was adopted straight away . Harrington gardens flats his her only clue . Connie s boyfriend went away he wanted to be a painter before she found out she was pregnant . how this story unfolds is just so good very twisty and gripping but very sad i cried so recommend

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A terrific thriller.
Jenny Quintana, the bestselling author of The Missing Girl and Our Dark Secret, comes The Hiding Place: a story about identity, love, long-buried secrets and lies.
Marina is adopted. She’s always known this – but the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. Baby Blue, the newspapers nicknamed her at the time, after she’d been found wrapped in a blue shawl, in the hallway of a large, shared house in London.
24 Harrington Gardens. That was the house. And it’s still standing now Marina is an adult; still split into flats. And one of them is to let . . .
Of course, Marina knows that the chances of her uncovering the truth about her birth are remote – but she hopes the house might hold some clues.
It's so original thriller that I was blown away.
Thanks to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for giving me an advanced copy.

Quintana's books have a way of taking the thriller genre and making it utterly relatable with drama . This book is no different. It continues in with Jenny's style of flitting in between two eras flawlessly and answers a question albeit with an unfortunate answer. I found that I wasn't drawn to the main protagonist as much as in her other books and wanted to find out more about Eva. I really enjoyed the different historical mentions that honoured different injustices that the 20th century has faced. At times however I simply wasn't very interested in parts of the story. For example, I found that the time given to Victor was still far too much and unnecessary. The hidden pregnancies and discussions of abortions in the 60s were very interesting however not explored better and could confuse a reader who doesn't understand the difficulties faced at that time. However, still a great read.

I have read Jenny's two previous books, The Missing Girl and Our Dark Secret and thoroughly enjoyed them both. The Hiding Place is no different. Like her previous two, it is a 'slow burn' mystery that has the reader easily turning the pages to find out what really happened. Marina has known all her life that she is the baby that made headlines when she was found abandoned in a block of units in 1964, and while she has had a great life with her loving adoptive parents, she has spent her life wanting to know why her mother left her. So in 1992 she goes back to her town and rents a room in the same building she had been found in. The story is told in alternating chapters from the perspective of Connie a pregnant teenager in 1964 and Marina in 1992. I really enjoyed watching the mystery unfold from the two different perspectives and all the different characters that inhabited the block of units in the different eras. I look forward to her next book!