Amelia-caught cheating on an English paper-has apparently been suspended. As the novel opens, Kate is leaving for work with an excess of unused adrenaline, ready for another demanding day at the office and wondering only briefly why the impending argument with Amelia never materializes.Īmelia leaves with a smile and a deceptively cheerful wave, her miraculous eyes-“one blue and one hazel glinting in the warm morning light.” It’s just another normal day, until Kate gets a phone call from Grace Hall telling her there’s been an incident. She mustĪlso attend to the needs of Amelia, her fifteen-year-old daughter who attends Grace Hall, a prestigious, upper-class Brooklyn high school. Kate spends most of her waking hours courting the needs of Jeremy Firth, the head of litigation at the law offices of Slone and Thayer.
A high-powered attorney at a salubrious downtown law office, Kate Baron is typical of most women in her position as she tries to juggle a stressful, demanding career with single motherhood.
Deconstructing and reassembling a loving mother-daughter relationship, the author ramps up the suspense in one of the best thrillers I’ve read this year. Kimberly McCreight creates a riveting scenario in this novel. Book review: Kimberly McCreight's *Reconstructing Amelia*
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