Emma Curtis – Keep Her Quiet

‘Keep Her Quiet’ by Emma Curtis is an explosive thriller that kept me hooked and unwilling to put my kindle down for any length of time. The story is told in two parts sixteen years apart and we hear the story from four points of view, Jenny, Leo, Hannah and sixteen-year-old Zoe. Jenny and Leo are husband and wife.

The first part begins in 1989, Jenny gives birth to a baby that Leo is fully aware is not his. He decides to make a sacrifice to have a family. One evening when Leo is going home from the hospital after visiting his wife and new baby girl, he has an accident and knocks A young woman with a baby in her arms over. Hannah is the woman and she then begins a deception that has far-reaching consequences that span the years to come and alters all lives involved in the charade that is pulled off.

Sixteen years later and we see Hannah, with Zoe, her daughter that was a ‘replacement’ for the baby Leo hit in the car accident that night. I really do not want to give away the story too much. All I can say is, it is shocking and selfish. These are actions that reverberate through the years.

I thought the premise of the story was a different one and I thought the characters slotted into the story well. I empathised with Jenny from the start, and, I am sorry, I think I would have been tempted to do the thing she did in order to have a baby. Leo is a hypocrite of the best kind, a narcissistic man, who is shallow and wants all his own way. When he is given the same kind of treatment from his wife, he acts like it is all fine, but on the first chance he gets, he cruelly makes a deal that he knows will break her. Hannah, well, she is, to me, a conniving and scheming woman who, by fate got what she wanted. Hannah and Leo both make me shiver, cold calculating people.
Everything starts to unravel and the shocks start along with the jawdropping twists and turns and machiavellian behaviour all come tumbling down in a jumbled heap clear for everyone to see. I loved this brilliantly entertaining novel of how desperation, selfishness can affect peoples lives.

Thank you to Random Things Tours and the publisher for the book and inclusion on the blog tour today.