Rag Doll Girls by Sydney James
Rag Doll
Girls
Sydney James
4 Stars
348 pages, ebook
Expected publication January 6, 2022
Publisher’s
Blurb
Two little girls
went out to play. I came back.
I was five when I discovered that adults don't know everything. It was the
weirdest feeling, sitting across from the policeman at my grandmother's
cottage, listening to him telling me that what had happened to Ellen was an
accident. No one's fault. She was in a better place now, he said.
I couldn't believe that he didn't know. That he couldn't tell, just by looking
at me. And I wanted to tell him the truth, I really did. Tell someone. The kind
policeman, my loving grandmother, anyone. Even my unforgiving sister. But they
all seemed convinced they knew what had happened, and anyway, there weren't any
words to describe the unforgettable sights I'd witnessed.
In the end, I never told anyone what I had seen. And once my parents had come
to get me, I never returned to my grandmother's cottage. Wild horses couldn't
have dragged me back. As soon as I could, I moved far away, halfway around the
world, and did all I could to forget.
But repressed memories and untold secrets have a way of resurfacing, and when
my life implodes three decades later, I'm forced to return by something much
more relentless than wild horses: my perfect older sister. Forced to go back to
our grandmother's cottage and find out which fragments of my nightmares were
the results of my vivid childhood imagination and which are based on facts.
A broken woman reluctantly confronts the secrets and lies of her past in this
gripping psychological novel. What really happened to her friend that day,
three decades ago? And will she be able to disentangle the shocking truth from
her false memories and authentic nightmares in time to save her sister's
children from the danger in the dark woods surrounding her grandmother's
idyllic cottage?
Review
Barely
surviving in the US with mounting credit card debt, a huge weight problem and
about to be evicted from her tiny apartment Lisa gets a call from her estranged
sister begging her to return to Sweden for her Grandmother’s funeral.
With
assurances that she would solve Lisa’s debt problem, Astrid convinces her to
fly back home but this is when it opens up a slew of repressed memories about
the day that Astrid’s friend Ellen died in the woods 30 years ago.
Told from the
perspective of both Lisa and Astrid this is a heart-breaking journey through
Lisa’s memories and emotions which kept me on the edge of my seat as she slowly unraveled the fact from fiction about that day so many years ago that sent he spiraling into debt and depression thousands of miles away from her family.
The plot
twists and turns right to the very end as the truth is finally revealed.
This is a
story of family ties and redemption as much as it is a tight psychological
thriller.
The sections
dealing with Lisa’s eating disorder are both funny and sad in equal measure and
cast a different light on the trials of the clinically obese
The Author
Filled with drama, unexpected twists, and intense emotions, a book by
Sydney James will take you closer to the edge of what it means to be human.
Sydney's thrilling stories explore what all of us are capable of doing if
pushed far enough. The characters are ordinary people who find themselves in
extraordinary situations that they don't immediately know how to get out of.
Sydney James writes about the flaws and the beauty in every one of our
hearts and minds. About desperation and hope, about fear and courage, about
love and burning hate, about lies and corrosive truths. It might not always be
obvious who is the victim and who is the perpetrator, but in a Sydney James
book, the butler never did it.
Welcome to the World of Sydney James. It might look a bit dark, but there is light beyond those clouds.
https://sydneyjamesauthor.com/
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