Finding Emma

I bought this book for a really trivial reason in that the little girl in the novel is called Emmie which is my daughters name. I loved the cover art and the back blurb which told of a family torn apart by the disappearance of their 3 year old daughter Emma.

Several years pass and people begin to encourage her mother, Megan, to move on and stop looking for her daughter. Her other children feel smothered and her husband has grown apart from her instead choosing to throw himself into work. Meanwhile a grandfather Jack and his wife Dottie are raising their granddaughter Emmie but Dottie is falling into deeper Alzheimer's and from things she begins to say Jack begins to worry about where Emmie came from.

I absolutely loved this book, I actually empathised more with Jack & Dottie and their situation. Their love for Emmie was really powerfully written and you could feel from Holmes' writing that the little girl was happy and loved and content in her life. The chapters with her family were moving and spoke a great deal about the nightmare of losing a child but it's through Jack & Emmie's relationship that most emotion is evoked.

An ending that was heartbreaking left me devastated and wanting more as it didn't feel complete. you can imagine my joy therefore to find a sequel called ‘Emma's Secret' is due for publication imminently bringing us more from Jack. I cannot wait to come back to this story. It is a triumph and thanks to reviews on Amazon encouraged me to buy it.