Pretty Baby
Willow is down on her luck. She's homeless, struggling to survive, and she has a baby to care for. When Heidi encounters Willow in the subway, her heart aches for this poor young mum and she feels compelled to take her in and care for both her and the baby. But is Willow all that she appears to be? Can she be trusted, or will Heidi's good deed end in misery?
Mary Kubica's Pretty Baby seems to have been woven from the same cloth as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. Told in the form of oscillating chapters between three central characters, Pretty Baby is definitely a page turner. There's just enough story to pique your curiosity, but not enough to satiate it, and the only way to feel that sense of relief is to keep turning the pages and let the story unfold. I quite enjoyed the web Kubica has woven between these pages, and I would definitely recommend this to fans of Gone Girl, or for anyone who is looking for a page turner. - Andree
Woodgrove, 10/05/2016
