The past haunts!

The Couple at Causeway Cottage by Diane Jeffrey 

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A young couple, Kat and Mark, buy a house, ‘Causeway Cottage’ on an island off the coast of Northen Ireland. Their plan, to be close to Mark’s mother who has dementia and is in a care home. And to start a family. Kat was gong to take her photography to the professional level, Mark would catch the ferry across to work in Belfast,

But they both have secrets. Secrets that laboured and destroyed, and in the end, those secrets did me in as well. Kat’s had something to do with her childhood friend and tragedy.

I’m so conflicted about this story. It was a page turner that’s for sure, I couldn’t put it down.

I understand the actions of Kat but the morality gives pause. And the ending! I’d be running! And—is that really the ending?

But all that aside Kat is a conflicted mass of should she, shouldn’t she tell Mark, tell Darragh. Who’s hiding secrets from whom? Too many secrets. And yes, I’d guessed Mark’s big secret, mind you he had two major ones. I didn’t like Mark, I found him untrustworthy. Darragh I was unsure about. Kat I felt sympathy for, but her actions were crazy complicated. 

So, all this agonising is to say it’s definitely up there with readability and questions, but in the end I lost all with sympathy for the players.

An HQ ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.