Author: Mike Gayle
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Rating: 5 Stars
Strangers living worlds apart.
Strangers with nothing in common.
But it wasn't always that way...
Kerry Hayes is a single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past.
Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back.
When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will have life-changing consequences for them both.
By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its powerfully emotional, heartbreaking final page.
Strangers with nothing in common.
But it wasn't always that way...
Kerry Hayes is a single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past.
Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back.
When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will have life-changing consequences for them both.
By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its powerfully emotional, heartbreaking final page.
Words can't describe adequately what I feel about this book.
Without a doubt Mike Gayle's best book, and I've read them all, and its such a powerful but heartbreaking story,
I was almost in floods of tears for most of the last fifth of the book, and kept having to swallow the lump in my throat, purely as I didn't want people wondering why on earth I was crying poolside on holiday.
Kerry and Noah couldn't have had any more different upbringings if they tried, but yet there are a few similarities in their lives.
This is a story of siblings reconnecting after many years apart, but its also about family, and deals with tough subjects too, but in a sensitive manner.
i really don't want to say much about the plot, purely as I feel its best discovered for yourself. I went in completely blindly, having downloaded this purely because I love the author, and was rewarded with a fabulous experience.
Such a fantastic story that I feel has enriched my life for having read it
Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton on Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Without a doubt Mike Gayle's best book, and I've read them all, and its such a powerful but heartbreaking story,
I was almost in floods of tears for most of the last fifth of the book, and kept having to swallow the lump in my throat, purely as I didn't want people wondering why on earth I was crying poolside on holiday.
Kerry and Noah couldn't have had any more different upbringings if they tried, but yet there are a few similarities in their lives.
This is a story of siblings reconnecting after many years apart, but its also about family, and deals with tough subjects too, but in a sensitive manner.
i really don't want to say much about the plot, purely as I feel its best discovered for yourself. I went in completely blindly, having downloaded this purely because I love the author, and was rewarded with a fabulous experience.
Such a fantastic story that I feel has enriched my life for having read it
Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton on Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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