It is time to stop doing everything I can to get them to notice me and start doing everything I can to notice myself” But now it is time I do start acknowledging my strengths and recognising my weaknesses not as failure, but as potential. “It is hard for me to see myself if those who are supposed to love me the most don’t see me either. She couldn’t work out who was a hero and who was a villain. Everything was tilting and she couldn’t make sense of anything anymore. Now it felt like she had been shoved off course. Not too long ago, she had been content living her less than extraordinary life with her dull husband and disconnected family. “This was turning out to be one hell of a day. His lips are so used to being pursed, I’m surprised he can get the fork in” “He is such a hypocrite, sitting there, spooning scrambled eggs into his tight mouth. And Helen was not a huge fan of the truth” But of course they only knew what she had chosen to let them see. Her daughter, her stepchildren, her husband. “These were the people who should know her best. “Nothing good had ever happened to her here. Below them a solid wooden door like a mouth, ready to breathe her in. She knew it was just the sun casting a shadow over the glass, but even so, those windows had always looked like heavily lidded eyes to her. When isn’t the world a strange place? But those oddities and eccentricities, weird stories on the news and international lockdowns plant story seeds that grow into books like this one”
“This book was written when the world was a strange place. Keep up with all Dawn’s latest news at her website
She lives in London with her husband, two daughters and a British bulldogs Geoffrey and Luna. Now a company director, what spare time Dawn has, is spent writing domestic noir fiction, chasing good intentions, contemplating how to get away with various crimes and misdemeanours, and immersing herself in fictitious worlds. Helen immediately suspects that Diana is connected somehow, but before she can confront her, Diana is found dead and the entire family has motive.ĭawn Goodwin’s career has spanned PR, advertising and publishing, both in London and Johannesburg.Ī graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing school, she loves to write about the personalities hiding behind the masks we wear every day, whether beautiful or ugly. Only one person could have that photograph – and she is dead. Then an old photograph resurfaces that threatens to uncover a long-buried secret, one that Helen has taken great care to keep hidden in the past. When Helen Whitmore’s stepson brings home a new girlfriend one evening, her already imperfect family begins to tip towards breaking point.ĭiana is smart, beautiful, feisty and clearly out to cause trouble. How well do you know your children? And how well do they know you?
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