The Marriage - K.L. Slater (story books to read .TXT) 📗

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The idea for The Marriage began with my husband spotting a local newspaper story about a man who killed a stranger on a night out with a single punch. With the help of a restorative justice programme, he became good friends with his victim’s mother.

The story ignited my interest, and when I get ‘that feeling’, I always invest some time to think around the idea. I started to play around with the facts. I thought, what if the man killed his best friend rather than a stranger, and what if he wasn’t just friends with his victim’s mother, but ended up marrying her! That became the real seed of the idea, and it grew rapidly in my head, which I think is always a good sign for a writer.

I always outline a new story to get things straight in my head and to let my editor see what I have in mind. But there is no real detail in the outline and it’s only when I start to write that the characters come to life and things get interesting. As I developed the character of Tom, it became apparent that he’d had a problematic relationship with his father from childhood. I enjoyed exploring this angle of his character and seeing how seemingly disconnected events from someone’s childhood can have implications in adult life. The Billinghurst family unit is complicated further when Tom’s mother, Jill, takes it upon herself to try and keep the peace between family members. An exhausting and thankless task that perhaps many of us recognise!

This book is set in Nottinghamshire, the place I was born and have lived all my life. Local readers should be aware that I sometimes take the liberty of changing street names or geographical details to suit the story.

I do hope you enjoyed reading The Marriage and getting to know the characters. If so, I would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to write a review. I’d love to hear what you think, and it makes such a difference helping new readers to discover one of my books for the first time.

I love hearing from my readers – you can get in touch on my Facebook page, through Twitter, Goodreads or my website.

Thank you to all my wonderful readers … until next time,

Kim x

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The Girl She Wanted

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What if my sister is unstable and everyone can see it but me? What was she really doing standing over Florence’s cot in the middle of the night?

Alexa has always looked up to her older sister Carrie. Carrie lives in Alexa’s family home, and adores her one-year-old niece Florence. Alexa doesn’t know how they would cope without her. So when Carrie is suspended from her job as a senior nurse, accused of the most terrible crime, Alexa reels in disbelief. Alexa knows how caring Carrie is, and as she watches Florence gurgling and cooing whenever Carrie is around, she knows her little girl is in safe hands.

Alexa’s husband doesn’t trust Carrie. He wants her out of the house, unable to ignore what people are saying about her. But when he suggests that Carrie could be a danger to their daughter, Alexa shuts him out. Nobody will ever come between her and her sister.

Then Florence is hurt while in Carrie’s care and Alexa at last starts to wonder. Alexa has always wanted to protect Carrie from the past they have hidden. But does Alexa know what Carrie wants? And will the secret that has kept the sisters together now destroy her little girl?

A completely gripping rollercoaster of a read about the darkness families hide behind closed doors. Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will be hooked on The Girl She Wanted.

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‘Oh. My. Goodness. What a book!… It kept me awake when I should have been asleep… I couldn’t put it down!… Kept me hanging onto every single word… I just needed to know what happened.’ Stardust Book Reviews, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Little Whispers

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You shared a secret with the wrong person.

Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.

Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to. Tanya takes Janey under her wing, and her teenage daughter Angel is amazing with Janey’s little boy. As Janey and Tanya grow closer, Janey feels she can finally leave her troubled past behind.

But then everything changes…

In a weak moment over a bottle of wine, Janey finds herself telling Tanya her most shocking secret. Why wouldn’t she trust her new friend?

The following day, Janey sees Angel, with a man old enough to be her father, pushing someone into a car. The next day a body is found and police appeal for witnesses – and share a picture of the same car…

When Janey tells Tanya she is going to the police, Tanya turns threatening. She’ll stop at nothing to defend Angel, even if her daughter is guilty. If Janey says anything, Tanya will make sure that her dark secret gets out.

Janey faces an impossible choice. Stay quiet about what she saw that terrible day. Or speak up, and destroy the family she has worked so hard to protect…

From million-copy bestseller K.L. Slater comes this twisty and absolutely unputdownable roller-coaster ride of a read. Fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will be totally hooked on Little Whispers.

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‘I want to take it and scream from the rooftops. I want to make everyone I know read a copy. I want to knock on doors and leave