4 Stars from me
I was drawn in to this one incredibly quickly and felt huge empathy for Clara.
Although, having said that, I also wanted to shake her a lot of the time.
Really enjoyed the concept of ‘Good Listeners’ and that they had the same people ringing in week in week out with the same tales of woe. This was a nice undercurrent of ‘you never know what someone is going through’ and also a balance of real problems vs third world problems feeling just a real and painful to the person experiencing them.
I couldn’t help but admire the tenacity shown by Clara, the dogged determination to track down the person who took and killed her daughter – but what I admired even more was her ability to carry on, to get up each day and go out into the world to do good.
A simple premise that was executed well and made for a highly engaging read.
My thanks to the author, netgalley and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: An anonymous call. A Mother desperate for justice.
The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk.
When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating on her husband, the man who has lost yet another job, the teenager struggling at school…
And Clara is prepared for every kind of caller. Except this one.
Because the woman on the other end of the line has just told her ‘my husband killed a little girl.’
And two years ago, Clara’s own daughter was murdered and her killer never caught.
The police have no leads. This is Clara’s only chance of justice. But when the caller is anonymous, what chance does she have of finding them?
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