Her life was perfect. Until the video.
Scarlett’s golden life suddenly unravels when someone sends a shocking video of her to everyone she knows. The only people who claim they haven’t seen it are the friends in her new mothers’ group: Cora, Emma and Asha.
Scarlett is forced to delve into her past to discover who is out to get her. But as her circle of trust gathers around her, she has to ask – are her friends as innocent as they seem?
Caroline Corcoran is an author whose first novel, Through The Wall, came out in October 2019. It was a Sunday Times Bestseller and translated into numerous foreign languages.
Her second book, The Baby Group, was released in September 2020.
As well as writing books, Caroline is a freelance lifestyle and popular culture journalist who has written and edited for most of the top magazines, newspapers and websites in the UK.
Twitter: @cgcorcoran
Instagram: @carolinecorcoranwriter
Scarlett, Cora, Emma and Asha have been friends since meeting at their NCT Baby Group while pregnant. They have become a lovely, supportive group helping each other through the first year of their babies lives. Unfortunately, they appear to be the only friends Scarlett has left. A sex tape has been leaked to all her other friends, family, and work colleagues…including her clients. Someone doesn’t want to just hurt Scarlett, but they want to destroy her!
This followed a great plot. Scarlett was 23 years old when she made the sex tape with two men after a devastating life event through to showing up years later in the inboxes of everyone she knew. She analyses who could have sent it, working through each person, especially when not many knew. Combined with her feelings around it, to return to work after having her baby and then virtually being kicked out again straight away. Who would want to destroy her life so much? What was she missing?
Told in three points of view, mainly Scarlett’s, then Emma and finally the ‘anonymous’ persons voice, they have obviously been hurt and upset by Scarlett and her actions, but the reason why doesn’t become apparent until the end of the book. This complicated story of suspicions of love affairs, disputes between friends, and Scarlett’s shame and embarrassment now that she has been exposed is the book’s main subject.
The characters are well developed. Some appear to be more filler than necessary to the story. Still, on the whole, they are easy to identify with. Scarlett has some lovely people around her and some not so pleasant, which becomes more evident through the story.
I really enjoyed this and, although I had some ideas about who published the video, it wasn’t obvious and wasn’t the person I thought it was. It’s all well wrapped up at the end as well, which is always great to see. We know who did it and why ad the theories behind their thinking. A great read from Caroline Corcoran!
Thanks to the Author, Publisher and Netgalley for an Advanced Review Copy (ARC) in exchange for an honest review.
| Title | The Baby Group |
| Author | Caroline Corcoran |
| Series | N/A |
| Format | eARC |
| Page Count | 352 Pages |
| Genre | Psychological Fiction |
| Publisher | Avon |
| Release Date | 17th September 2020 |
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