Throughout the novel Deborah takes her readers on a journey through the lives of a range of highly interesting people who are all, in one way or another, deeply damaged or disturbed in one way or another.
There's Sasha who is doing her best to keep her life together. She is raising her teenage son Zac. Although she isn't a single parent, she might as well be, as her husband is absent.
Then there's the problems presented by her elderly mother who is not only temperamental, her alcoholism also compounds the problems she presents.
But why has Zac destroyed a pair of scissors as he attempted to break in to a valuable antique desk which he has caused terrible damage to?
What was he searching for? What dreadful secrets does he believe that his mother is keeping hidden from him?
And what about Sasha? Does she have a dark secret from her past that she needs to keep hidden?
Her mother, Annie, is beginning to have problems with the past and the present, as they seem to coalesce together. What is true? What is untrue? Annie doesn't seem to know, any more.
She is certain of one thing. That Joe, her late husband, is waiting for her and watching over her. But is he? And what of a dreadful secret that she kept from Joe? How can she go to him with that on her conscience?
It's an interesting novel that takes the reader through the history of Sasha's family over several decades.
Old traumas are revealed and relived and once hidden secrets are brought to the surface, again.
It's published by Matador at £9.99.
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