She's never truly recovered from the trauma and a lot of recollections are more her trying to parse out the truth of what happened as opposed to a strict retelling of the event.

Not only is her son missing, but the police can’t find any evidence of what happened to him, and Isabelle’s husband, Ben, has ended their marriage. Once her baby is born she's so exhausted but eventually she wants more, only to lose everything she had left.

Many readers found the twists to be mind blowing but I didn't think anything all that surprising was revealed. It’s gruelling and punishing in more ways that one as Isabelle has had little more than micro-sleep since Masons disappearance.

Despite working out the plot far too early, I was still gripped with the unpredictability of the sub plots, unsure of how the story would come together, and then of course the unveiling of peoples secrets and characters, was a great feature of the book. I loved seeing how the pieces fit together--although everything wraps up a little too neatly, the ending was quite gratifying. I pretty much figured out what happened in the past before it was all revealed, but I was wrong with my guesses about Mason's disappearance and who was responsible.

Through Izzy you get a pervading sense of unreality, a dreamlike somnambulant state,, it’s almost hallucinatory so you have no idea what’s real and what’s not. Stacy Willingham delves into the complicated and dark corners of her characters’ lives, peeling back their secrets bit by bit—and she gives us a front-row seat for the process.

After all, there are still some who think SHE’S behind Mason’s disappearance, and a tragic event from her past isn’t helping.The chair screeches as I pull it out, and Roscoe ambles over to me at the noise, resting at my feet as I jab my fork into the pasta and spin. Because Isabelle is a woman with secrets—in particular, a dark secret from her childhood that, if exposed, might make her look more guilty of harming her son than ever before. She hates that the people who attend sit behind their computers and tablets like this is a just a puzzle to be solved-when it’s the reality of her life-but she does this because they offer her the only HOPE she has left. But alongside this, Isabelle is also turning her attention inwards, asking long-ignored questions about herself, her past, and what really happened all those years ago. Twelve months ago, Mason the 18-month-old son of Isabelle and Ben goes missing from his cot while the family slept in another room.