Milestone

Milestone

By Heather Peck

Genre:-Crime Thriller

Pages:-284

Publisher:-Ormesby

Blub:-In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there have be a number of significant milestones: dates when millions of people around the world can say 'I know where I was when...'

 Aelfwyth, born on the day Elizabeth 11 was crowned Queen, finds her life has shared many pivotal moments with such milestones, from the childhood moment when she heard of the death of Kennedy and met The Five Towns Flasher, through wars and the Chernobyl disaster to the culmination of her ex-husband's persecution coinciding with 9/11. Milestones follow a life through joys and disaters, from first love to last, through miscarriage and abuse to survival and the realisation, at the end, that what really matters is love and hope.

 ・This wide-ranging thriller tracks a life full of incident and mystery across a landscape of shattering world events.

・A gripping, yet life-affirming narrative that explores the dramas of the late 20th and early 2st centurys through the prism of one woman's experience of loss, violence, abuse and love.

・from the award-winning author of DCI Greg Geldard Norfolk Mystery series.

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My Review:-I've had the pleasure of reading and reviewing a few of Heather's books and she has never ever disappointed me and she has with this book either. In this book we follow the life of Aelfwyth and how her life has almost been mapped out by milestones within the life and world we live. Aelfwyth was born on 2 June 1953, the day Elizabeth 11 was crowned Queen and her mother always made a comment on how she missed the coronation because she was born on the same day. But things don't stop there, Aelfwyth  remembers many other times that things have happened, at ten-year-old she was walking home with her best friend Katy, and that's where she hit a man with her school bag. When she got home Sophy the babysitter told her about the flasher, just when she was going to say something there was a new flash on the telly to say President Kennedy had been shot. Through out the book we are reminded of different milestones that intertwine with Aelfwyh own personal life. I don't want to say much more and spoil it for others to read. There were things within the story that I remembered where I was at that time, especially the death of Princess Diana, I remember putting the telly on after making a cuppa and breakfast for my children, and it was all over the news, I remember the weather outside was grey and raining. It story wasn't as fast pace as some of Heather's other books, but that what I enjoyed about this book, it gave me time to think about where was I when this happened, Aelfwyth, is a strong woman and a character you can't help but love.