Changes

|title=After The Fall

|author=Charity Norman

|genre=General Fiction

|rating=3.5

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1743310960

|pages=366

|publisher=Allen & Unwin

|date=December 2012

|summary=As her young son's life hangs in the balance, his mother is forced to reflect on the actions that have brought them to this point. An easy but imperfect read that is quite unexpected.

}}

It’s the middle of the night when five year old Finn falls from the balcony at his home in a remote part of New Zealand. Leaving his twin brother and older sister in the care of a neighbour, his mother Martha stays with him as a helicopter races him to the nearest hospital. But as he is rushed into surgery, she is taken to one side for questioning, with first nursing staff then the police and social workers raising concerns. Was Finn really sleep walking, something he is prone to do? But if so, how did he come to have suspicious bruises on one side of his body, not in keeping with how he landed? And if it wasn’t the accident Martha is saying it was, was his mother involved or is she covering for someone?

This was a book that tried really hard but ended up being only ok. Authors who tend to pull it off with more success include [[:Category:Diane Chamberlain|Diane Chamberlain]], [[:Category:Jodi Picoult|Jodi Picoult]] and [[:Category:Heather Gudenkauf|Heather Gudenkauf]]

{{commenthead}}