2024: Jo O' Mara is London based writer, who accepts a job as an auction catalog writer for seventy year old Mimi Mott, an excentric wealthy lady, who is famous as a style icon and who was the founder of a decorating empire. She is auctioning off her possesions that is huge interest in. Her posessions that are from her past, a past that hides many secrets Jo knows nothing about, and certainly Jo doesn't know that Mimi's past is connected to that of her own.
1969: Miriam and her sister Pamela and their parents, are living in a small staff cottage on the Rushwood estate, the English country estate of the wealthy and demanding Caswell family who are their employers. The parents are gardeners and Miriam and Pamela help too. That summer, Nancy and Lawrence, the adult daughter and son of the Caswell's are staying at Rushwood too, they are around the same age as Miriam and Pamela and a summer full of partying starts, but then at the grand party hold at the estate, a terrible accident happens..and the life of all the people involved never is the same again, and Miriam and Pamela don't speak to each other after that for decades..but Jo's work for Mimi makes that the two sisters, her greataunt and granny, are reunited decades later..
After having read Eve Chase's previous novel The Midnight Hour, I was very curious for her newest novel, would it be just as good? To start off, this book was completely different in setup and tone, and it just did not live up my expectations. The story started off good, I liked how the beginning was set up and I really expected a thrilling mystery. That lasted till the story went from 2024 to 1969. Especially at the throwbacks into 1969 the story becomes a bit messy, the story was mostly about the interactions between the characters, and there was just not happening anything that kept me interested, the story is waiting for that one terrible thing to happen, but untill then the reader has to do with uninteresting dialogues between the characters, and the somewhat childish party behaviour of the adult children in the book. The terrible accident that happens at the party takes up only a small part in the story, and the rest of the story deals with the aftermath of it for the characters, which of course has a sad tone. The last part where the pieces of the puzzle of Mimi (Miriam) and Pamela's live come together again because of Jo and the action, was a bit more interesting and entertaining. But mostly, I didn't like this story as much as I liked The Midnight Hour, and I truly expected more of this book.
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