Location Edge Hill, London.
A new outside swimming pool opens in Edge Hill and Natalie is curious. But her curiosity ends up taking her down a path of no return. A path of excitement but also danger.
Looking at the blurb on the back cover of this book this sounded like it was going to be a cleverly written piece of literary fiction and a dark psychological thriller. It is a bit misleading as the majority of the book reads like a typical chic-lit book. It is full of rich people and their husbands and pool parties and cocktail parties. It is only towards the last 100 pages or so that the book escalates into thriller mode.
I am not really a fan of chic-lit but the book kept my interest because of the slowly burning plot that was ever so slowly being revealed. You do need a dictionary for the first 300 pages and that's not a bad thing as I like to learn new words. In the latter part of the book the long words disappear quite cleverly and the pace quickens and the book comes to a dramatic climax with quite a few twists and turns. One thing I also found was that this is probably one of the only books I have ever read in my life where none of the characters were actually very nice!
Overall it was a good read but I could have done without a few of the cocktail parties and more of the drama.
4/5
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