NEW RELEASE
Pieces of You - Ella Harper (2014)
Lucy Harte works as a florist and is married to the love of her life, paramedic Luke. Everyone knows Lucy and Luke are soulmates - the real deal. However, after eight years of trying to have a baby together without any luck, things aren't going so well. Lucy wants nothing more than to have a child of her own and, even after the numerous miscarriages, she secretly has high hopes for their last IVF treatment. But then, completely unexpected, Lucy's world comes crashing down and suddenly she is forced to rethink everything and make some decisions that will change her life for ever. This book was just as compelling and heartbreaking as other readers had told me it would be; what an incredible novel by Sasha Wagstaff writing under a pen-name. The story is told from three female perspectives: the main character Lucy, her sister-in-law Nell, and her mother-in-law. The characters are really well-rounded and each had their own interesting point of view to share and story to tell. The strongest aspect of this book is undoubtedly the amazing love between Lucy and Luke. It is so obvious that these two characters are meant to be together, but at the same time the book shows that even people madly in love with one another have to overcome struggles and fight for their relationship. The blurb of the book gives away a large part of the plotline, but there were still a few twists in the story I did not see coming. This novel is so well-written and emotional; I didn't want to put it down before I knew what would eventually happen to Lucy. Somehow, this book is incredibly real and my thoughts were still on the characters a couple of days after I'd finished it. Pieces of You is an incredibly compelling, powerful, heart-breaking novel. (JoH)
Pieces of You, by Ella Harper (aka Sasha Wagstaff), questions the perfect relationship. The summary says: "Thirty-something Lucy and Luke Harte, have everything - jobs they love, a great home, lovely family and friends - except the one thing they want the most: a baby. After eight miscarriages and years of disappointment, their luck has finally turned. Lucy is nearly four months pregnant - the furthest she has ever got - and both she and Luke are ecstatic. But fate has another plan for Lucy and, on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Luke is involved in a horrific car accident. As Luke lies in a coma, Lucy tries, with the support of her mother-in-law Patricia, best friend Dee and sister-in-law Nell, to hold everything together. But life for Lucy and the Harte family is about to change more than they could ever have imagined when Stella, a colleague of Luke's, turns up at the hospital pregnant with his baby..." Pieces of You is out in September 2014.