A review by lefttoread
Hush Little Baby by Joanna Barnard

1.0

I could have easily put down this book for good before I even got half way but I'm obsessive and have a need to finish books that I've started, especially books I've been given to review from Netgalley.

Hush Little Baby is based on a family of four, the mother, the father, Oliver their newborn baby and Martha, Oliver's big sister. One night Oliver will not stop crying and seems to be very stressed, in the middle of the night he gets taken to hospital only to find he's gotten a fracture that could not have been caused by any other than force from another person.

Social services get involved and question each member of the family and do what they can to find out the truth.

A lot of the plot is how the family are reacting and their relationships with one another, there's not a lot of suspicions, just a lot of family drama, arguments etc.

The reader finally finds out who was the one to cause baby Oliver harm in the last pages.

I just wish I read the first chapter or two to get the gist then went to the last couple of pages because that's enough to grasp the whole story.

Thank you Netgalley for sending me a copy of the book in return for an honest review.