Quite a difficult book to review as I feel so emotionally wrought after reading it! The two central characters are very real – their lives are brought together for just fifty days, when secrets and lives are shared and deeper secrets not. The women are polar opposites, yet their lives echo one another’s in many different ways. It is only at the very end of the book when the true significance of the fifty days is shared with the reader resulting in an ending which is both incredibly uplifting and immensely downbeat.
