The Art of Hiding

Publication date 18th July 2017

Amazon UK

About the book

Nina McCarrick lives the perfect life, until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.

Alone, bereft and faced with a mountain of debt, Nina quickly loses her life of luxury and she begins to question whether she ever really knew the man she married. Forced to move out of her family home, Nina returns to the rundown Southampton council estate—and the sister—she thought she had left far behind.

But Nina can’t let herself be overwhelmed—her boys need her. To save them, and herself, she will have to do what her husband discouraged for so long: pursue a career of her own. Torn between the life she thought she knew and the reality she now faces, Nina finally must learn what it means to take control of her life.

My review

This is another powerful book from Amanda Prowse! 

The main characters in the book are great lovable people. Nina the main character is a mother of two young boys, and her whole world comes crashing down on her in a flash and you just want to hold your arms out to her and hug her tight.

After dealing with one of the worst things to happen, Nina is given the shock of her life when she finds out what secrets her husband left behind and she learns he wasn't all the man she thought he was.  We see her going from a rich kept housewife to being a working mother with barely anything or money to her name.

We really see Nina grow as a character throughout the book and we see her at the end of the book coming out a stronger more appreciative person.

The Art of Hiding is packed out with a lot of emotions.  Firstly we see sadness and pain through to anger, fear, then finally happiness.

I think the moral of the story is 'No matter how much you think someone you really don't.'

I really love Amanda Prowse book's they really make you appreciate the little things in life and everytime you finish one of her books you feel so much better about life. Amanda has a fantastic style of writing that grips us and makes us excited to see what her next book will be about.