This is another story told in multiple voices. They only work well if the author can successfully take on the different personality's voices quickly as they switch, otherwise it's easy for the reader to become confused. This book manages, in the main, to avoid that confusion.
The story has 3 central characters, 2 women and one man. At the beginning of the story one woman is pregnant and one has recently given birth. Both lose their babies and the story then confuses the reader, time and again, until the last chapter. Mystery follows enigma, eventually solved through the stubbornness of a paranoid but rather clever husband, who just avoids causing even more tragedy before getting there, almost, in the end. I won't spoil the ending, but life is often messy.
It's a clever story that makes the most of the strange coincidences that plague us in life and that we often don't believe when we see them in fiction. It's a testament to maternal love, in many forms, when it's right and when it goes wrong. Be prepared to condemn but remember that we're all human.
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