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“He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter” Han Fei

So sorry this is late blog issues. Also Instagram, email issues the lot. Hope to have post on Instagram today as well. Thank you to Anne from Random Things Tours, Anna Wharton, RK Book Publicist, Mantle Books and Pan Macmillan for allowing me to be a part of The Imposter Blog Tour.

Sypnosis

They say you can’t choose your family . . . But what if they’re wrong?

Chloe lives a quiet life. Working as a newspaper archivist in the day and taking care of her nan in the evening, she’s happy simply to read about the lives of others as she files the news clippings from the safety of her desk.

But there’s one story that she can’t stop thinking about. The case of Angie Kyle – a girl, Chloe’s age, who went missing as a child. A girl whose parents never gave up hope.

When Chloe’s nan is moved into care, leaving Chloe on the brink of homelessness, she takes a desperate step: answering an ad to be a lodger in the missing girl’s family home. It could be the perfect opportunity to get closer to the story she’s read so much about.

But it’s not long until she realizes this couple isn’t all they seem. In a house where everyone has something to hide, is it possible to get too close?

Author Biography

Anna Wharton has been a print and broadcast journalist for more than twenty years, writing for newspapers including The Times, Guardian, Sunday Times Magazine, Grazia and Red. She was formally an executive editor at The Daily Mail. Anna has ghostwritten four memoirs including the Sunday Times Bestseller Somebody I Used To Know and Orwell Prize longlisted CUT: One Woman’s Fight Against FGM in Britain Today. The Imposter is her first novel.

Review

This is a fantastic read. It explores the highly emotive and difficult subject which is “Dementia” and one of the diagnoses that being Alzheimer’s. There are many other forms of Dementia, Alzheimer’s being the most aggressive. It is very divisive and destroys family dynamics. Having worked with people who suffer with it and had a family member who was a victim of it I can safely say that Anna has covered the subject brilliantly.

The story itself tells the story of Chloe who works for a newspaper as an archivist and how she supports and cares for her her Grandmother alongside her work. Of course working in this field you would stumble across all sorts of amazing stories. Chloe does find such a story of a missing girl and the story goes…

Well without giving you too much, her Grandmother disappears from a cemetery. It of course leads to a mass search and a care home at the centre of the controversy; it does start a topic of discussion about the lack of resources to support some people in care homes. My own Grandma went missing with this disease many years ago and was found in the city centre on a Friday night amongst the revellers. I wonder how old she was in her mind in that moment and what drew her there. Chloe’s Grandmother was most certainly in a similar moment.

Of course her Grandmother going missing inspires Chloe to look into the disappearance of the girl Angel she found in the archives as she now has time to do so as her Grandmother is still missing. She speaks with the parents of the missing girl Angel. This of course causes old wounds to reopen and grief to manifest itself. Touching stuff.

This was slightly outside of my usual read. However, this did not stop me enjoying it. Great narrative, excellent plotting and tremendous thought has gone into this.

Highly recommended.

Cheers

Ben

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Other Information

‘This pacy novel really is one of the best pieces of fiction I have read this year’Fiona Mitchell, author of The Swap

‘A slick, clever book that delivers the most chilling and claustrophobic setting: moving the narrator into the home of the character you fear the most. You won’t be able to stop page-turning until you finally find out what the hell is going on’Caroline Corcoran, author of Through the Wall

‘A compelling story of obsession and loneliness’Nell Pattison, author of The Silent House

‘I read it in one sitting and loved it! It grips and drags you into ever darker, more terrifying territory right up to the last paragraph’Tasha Kavanagh, author of Things We Have in Common

‘With an intriguing and obsessive protagonist, it’s a tense and compelling read that kept me turning the pages until the final twist’ Debbie Howells, author of The Bones of You