Never mind Miss Fox

I don't like to post reviews of books that disappoint me. I do it, nevertheless, as a public service; I would want to know if I was going to walk into a book that might waste my time.

Consider this a public service, then. My frank opinion: This is a perfectly fine story, but the tension the book blurb eludes to...well, I just didn't feel it. I knew on page two where the story was going, and I think you will, too.

It's not a bad book; it's just not a great book.

You decide.

The Barkes family was happy – Martha, Clive, and their daughter Eliza didn't lead perfect lives, but they were content and secure – until a complicated figure from Clive and Martha's past, Miss Eliot Fox, returns unexpectedly to their lives. As the family is confronted with secrets long kept, they are forced to evaluate their lives and their priorities. Even young Eliza, who had never met Eliot until the story takes place, comes into her own as an individual. Martha and Clive both make a number of poor decisions in this book, and I often found myself disgusted with them, yet I enjoyed their tumultuous chronicle, hoping all the while that they could piece themselves back together.

I received a free copy of this book from the Goodreads First Reads program.