For whatever reason I kept putting off reading this book.
I finally made myself read it and I’m glad I did.
Such a good but emotionally story.

Raising children is never easy but trying to be a positive figure for those children is even harder.
Kids see so much more than we give them credit for.

Kudos to Kate for writing such a good story.

Love this author!

Tissues. Can someone please pass the tissues.

A very emotive read. For 80% of it I loved.

It’s started out exceptionally well, lagged a bit in the middle where I thought (as a reader) I needed it to press on, ya know?
It did pick up though and it emotionally tugged me, so I’d say that’s a done job.

Two mothers. One single, one married. Two sons - best friends. Yet, one of the alost 10-years-old boys pushes the other one from the dangerous height and Ben suffers the damage on his brain as a result of his fall. How a mother copes with such a drastic change in her life and mainly her son's live? How another mother copes with her troubled son and the possibility of the marital troubles, too?

While this book presents soe very interesting moral questions, I don't like it. Maybe because for long time I have never disliked one of the heroines so much as I dislike Joanna. While Maddie (Ben's mom) is immature, too - I can understand her immaturity. But I also see her honesty, her fighting to grow up, her change. Joanna is not simply immature, she has some unhealthy character traits, too (or may be she is just a self-absorbed cow, uncapable of simple human compassion). Single mother Maddie is also much better at parenting than the couple of Joanna and Lewis. Almost 10-year-old boy pushes his best friend from dangerous height and no one of his parents questions him to get down to the roots of the issue? Like WHY did he do it? No one really cares for this obviously troubled boy with the healthy love? (No, because they can not even comunicate openly with themselves.). And what about the moral consequences? Do we not ever discuss the questions of moral wrongness with the children?
Maddie truly comes off like a much honest person here - maybe because she recognizes her doings as wrong.

And, ugh - don't let me even start on the unethicality of bringing Ben into the last scene with Josh. It is cruel, it is unhealthy and it is simply stupid.
I will cease from reading this authoress.

Yes, there are some saving graces. The issues presented are interesting, some of the questions are real and the consequences do exist. So maybe you will like this book better than me.