I’m really pleased that I have my review here for Hear Me Cry by Eileen Wharton today. Thanks to Zooloo’s Book Tours for the invitation and the copy of the book to give my honest review.
A nun hiding a chilling secret. A literary agent, Katie Kovacs is ghost-writing her mysterious memoir, and delves into her grisly past. What secrets will be revealed?
Heather Parnell runs away from a commune in the 1970s and in a disastrous catalogue of events, is involved in the death of three elderly people. She becomes the focus of a media storm, who name her, The Commune Murderer.
Katie has her own demons. Haunted by an abduction she witnessed as a child, Katie believes she is being stalked. Her six-year-old son went missing years before, and Katie was convinced her husband was responsible.
Will she ever find out what really happened to Oliver?
Will she finally unearth the truth about Britain’s most notorious female killer?
SHE INVITED HER INTO HER HEAD, NOW SHE CAN’T GET HER OUT .
I have read Eileen Wharton’s books before so was looking forward to reading Hear Me Cry even before I got the book.
This is a hard read in so many ways. Heather Parnell tries to run away from a commune in the 1970s and ends up being known as the Commune Killer when she gets embroiled in murders as she attempts to flee. Present day we find her living as a nun. Katie Kovacs is a literary agent, her husband is controlling as well as the boss of the company she works for too. Heather wants Katie to tell her story but will she reveal everything about the murders in the fast?
A story that’s quite complex with heavy and sensitive issues running throughout. It did take a little time before I got my head around the characters and timelimes, but when I got to grips with that, I just flew through this. It gripped me to the point I wanted to keep reading even though it wasn’t comfortable at times.
The abuse that the characters receive felt like Eileen Wharton was almost ripping my own heart out and stamping on it. I have heard lots of abuse stories and feel like I can handle majority of issues raised in books. Hear Me Cry almost made me cry and that’s unusual. Her emotive and well written descriptions of the characters and how they cope in these situations reached out to me.
It is a very twisty story and you have to keep your head in the book as it all unfolds. There were moments I felt a chill run up my spine it got that creepy. Every situation and issue is dealt with sensitively and in line with the plot. There is no over-egging, there is no need. The authors words say it perfectly.
No matter how many twists, turns and shocks there are throughout this book nothing prepared me for the ending of this book. I didn’t think Eileen Wharton could have thrown any more at us…but I was definitely wrong! An excellent immersive and emotional new book that I recommend if you love a twisty, complex and hard hitting story.
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Author Bio
Eileen Wharton is an Oscar winning actress, Olympic gymnast, and Influencer. She also tells lies for a living. Her first novel was published in 2011 to worldwide critical acclaim. And she’s won awards for exaggeration. It did top the Amazon humour chart so she’s officially a best-selling author. She currently has five ‘lively’ offspring ranging from thirty-three to fourteen years of age, and has no plans to procreate further, much to the relief of the local schools and police force. She lives on a council estate in County Durham. She has never eaten kangaroo testicles, is allergic to cats and has a phobia of tinned tuna. She’s retired from arguing with people on the internet.
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