Seven Days
In seven days, Maggie’s son, Max, turns three. But she’s not planning a party or buying presents or updating his baby book. She’s dreading it. Because in her world, third birthdays are the days on which the unthinkable happens… she loses her child.
For the last twelve years Maggie has been imprisoned in a basement. Abducted aged fifteen, she gave birth to two sons before Max, and on their third birthdays her captor came and took them from her.
She cannot let it happen again. But she has no idea how to stop it. And the clock is ticking…
Maggie's son Max turns three in Seven Days and she has seven days to work out how to stop him being taken away. She knows this because Maggie has been held captive for twelve years after she was abducted at fifteen and has given birth to two sons previously and on their third birthdays they have been taken from her.
The narrative jumps back and forth in time, something I don't usually like, but this time it really does work and the story is filled in.
While most of the story is told by Maggie, we also hear from Martin her father, James her brother and DI Wynne, whose case it is.
I couldn't put this book down, it really gripped me. How Maggie felt and how she coped. How her family did or didn't cope with the not knowing. We know people have been held captive before without people knowing where they are and so we know that happens.
For me the only part that didn't sit too well was the end, It was a little bit rushed and wouldn't quite have happened how it did, but a small point.
Thank you to the NetGalley and the Publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.