The Last Stars in the Sky by Kate Hewitt

 

Mom, why are you so mad at Dad?”
“I’m not,” I say, which isn’t exactly true. Putting on a brave face for my two young daughters—pretending everything is fine in my marriage—has been hard. That, and losing the house after Daniel lied to me.

I never expected to have to uproot my family to go live in my parents’ isolated cottage on Lost Lake. It’s twenty miles to the nearest town, an insignificant speck in endless pine forests. Nobody’s lived here for a decade.

Now, I pick up a rusty pail from its nest of autumn leaves and turn to my daughter. Suddenly, I recall how I used to help my own mother pick wild strawberries up here as a little girl. Maybe, this isn’t a punishment. Maybe this place will be the making of our family.

I’m still thinking it when my daughter rests her silky head on my shoulder that evening in the flickering firelight. And when, over a steaming cup of coffee at dawn, I watch a single loon cut a course through the mirrored surface of Lost Lake.

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 About The Author

Kate Hewitt is the bestselling author of many novels of both historical and contemporary fiction. She particularly enjoys writing contemporary issue-driven women's fiction, and her novels have been called 'unputdownable' and 'the most emotional book I have ever read' by readers.

An American ex-pat, she lives in a small market town in Wales with her husband and five young(ish) children, along with their two Golden Retrievers. Join her newsletter for a free short story, as well as monthly updates and giveaways at https://www.bookouture.com/kate-hewitt/, or be part of her Facebook groups Kate's Reads, to discuss all manner of books, movies, music and cooking.

 

My Review

This is a riveting page turner, from beginning to end you never see most of what is going to happen.
As this read begins we are finally in Canada having left Connecticut, and it is not a happy time. Daniel has lost his job, and as a result they have lost everything, and going to remote lake in Canada.
What you never see coming is the nuclear attack, and then Marshall Law. It becomes survival and lawlessness, and yet, you see signs of compassion.
This is a family, Alex and Daniel and two daughters, their son is at College, and when the unthinkable happens Daniel leaves to find his son. You have to think the way things are, will they ever see there Dad/Husband again?
In the end, and wow, I think it was the end, but we end on a cliff hanger!
I received this book through Net Galley and Storm Publishing, and was not required to give a positive review.