Caroline Corcoran

What an opening sentence! I went into this book blind, and ended up reading something completely unexpected. Full of drama and dread, this book takes a group of mothers and subverts the idea that all they do all day is change diapers. Instead, they are fully realized people with desires who have to confront the women they were before they had children and their identities changed. I liked how the book highlighted the expectations placed on women, especially when Scarlett returned to work. "It's one of the ten thousand or so double standards in our life now," Scarlett says of her husband. The ethical question of posting your child for content is also raised by her blog "Cheshire Mama" which I felt was an important issue to discuss given the nature of the book. I never would have imagined her privacy would have been invaded on her first day back at work, but this book likes its twists! I enjoyed the anon chapters, which really showed a dark jealously and mom-shaming. Other secrets crept out and made for a deliciously suspenseful book! It kept me guessing the whole way through. #netgalley #thebabygroup… (más)

What an opening sentence! I went into this book blind, and ended up reading something completely unexpected. Full of drama and dread, this book takes a group of mothers and subverts the idea that all they do all day is change diapers. Instead, they are fully realized people with desires who have to confront the women they were before they had children and their identities changed. I liked how the book highlighted the expectations placed on women, especially when Scarlett returned to work. "It's one of the ten thousand or so double standards in our life now," Scarlett says of her husband. The ethical question of posting your child for content is also raised by her blog "Cheshire Mama" which I felt was an important issue to discuss given the nature of the book. I never would have imagined her privacy would have been invaded on her first day back at work, but this book likes its twists! I enjoyed the anon chapters, which really showed a dark jealously and mom-shaming. Other secrets crept out and made for a deliciously suspenseful book! It kept me guessing the whole way through.… (más)

Thank You to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for this ARC!!

Scarlett’s golden life suddenly unravels when someone sends a shocking video of her to everyone she knows. The only people who claim they haven’t seen it are the friends in her new mothers’ group: Cora, Emma and Asha. Scarlett is forced to delve into her past to discover who is out to get her.

An amazing book with a brilliant concept and characters.

It keeps you interested mainly to find out who is the culprit but also to know why?? The story is narrated from Scarlett's point of view and the anonymous person who is out to destroy her. There are many secrets and past stories which are revealed as the story progresses.

The twist at the end was so good that I did not see coming at all. Sometimes you just don't know who your friends are and how the things we do in the past can haunt us in the future!!… (más)

Overall it is an intriguing and interesting novel …but it is also not a “feel-good” read by any stretch of the imagination. The entire story is chilling and eerie… highlighting the ease with which our lives can be followed and examined in minute detail. Thanks to the thing called “social media”, Lexie unknowingly became exposed to a quagmire of information theft…not all of her own making. It turns out that one of Lexie’s neighbors is a social media nut case. She is lonely and mentally unstable and has fixated on Lexie as her new hobby. Of course Lexie had no way of knowing what was really going on behind the neighbors closed door until it was nearly too late. The chapters alternated between the lives of Lexie and Harriet the neighbor, creating a very claustrophobic…creepy and atmospheric read.… (más)