Book Review: Let Her Go by Dawn Barker
Let Her Go Dawn Barker Hachette Publishing 9780733632228 Publication date: July 2014 Dawn Barker's debut novel of 2013, Fractured , was a breakaway hit, beloved by book clubs and reluctant readers alike. Naturally, there is a lot of excitement surrounding the release of her follow up, Let Her Go. Like Fractured, Let Her Go explores a complicated moral and psychological grey area from multiple perspectives, allowing the reader to decide who they are in agreement with. The book follows two step sisters, Zoe and Nadia, as they negotiate the emotional battlefield of a surrogate pregnancy. When Zoe discovers that, due to lingering health issues, she is unable to conceive a child of her own, she is upset, and confides in her step sister Nadia who has three children of her own. To Zoe, Nadia has the perfect life, although Nadia would not be so quick to agree with her. Nadia's husband is often busy with work, and uninvolved with the children, though...