I keep forgetting what it is they call chick-lit for the no-longer-chicks, but this is a prime example.
Best friends Rachel, oariel and Jenny are sitting in a London café with their babies when they have the bright idea to make a pact to look after each other’s girls should disaster strike. Little could they know that when disaster does strike, it won’t hit one of them, but one of the little girls.
Rachel’s only child, Emma, is killed in a school bus crash when she is six and, sadly, there is no pact to look after Rachel. Unable to stay in her old life without the daughter on whom she doted, the grieving mum abandons her husband and friends and runs away to the Greek Island of Santorini.
In time, Rachel builds a new life, leaving behind her painful history, but she does not forget the pact she made and even from afar she finds a way to look after oariel and Jenny’s little girls.
Would you run away to Greece if some-thing like this happened to you? Would you hire a private investigator to follow your friends’ children? Would you evade the father of your child, even if he is a bit of a pill, when his grief is as enormous as yours?
on one level it’s all highly improbable, but on another, who’s to say what you would do if the centre was ripped out of your world? If you fancy a good but heart-wrenching read that does make you wonder what you would do in such a devastating situation, then Since I Don’t Have You is just the ticket. But if it’s territory you would find too sad to explore, steer clear.
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