Book Description
Publication
Date: April 15, 2013
An
apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. So what makes Emily
Coleman get up one morning and walk right out of her life to start all over
again? Has she had a breakdown? Was it to escape her dysfunctional family -
especially her flawed twin sister Caroline who always seemed to hate her? And
what is the date that looms, threatening to force her to confront her past?
No-one has ever guessed her secret. Will you?
Book Readers
Review
Tina
Seskis' first novel One Step Too Far a
tale of one woman and her emotional roller coaster life in a dysfunctional
family. The story is told in narration
from multiple points of view and flashbacks.
Insight into Emily Coleman's life, her family and friends is revealed
through many layers. At times this can
be confusing, especially if the reader is not completely focused. As the plot progresses you believe you have
it figured yet another twist and turn occurs in Emily's life. You begin to wonder how much more
psychological trauma can this poor woman endure. Her life appears to go from near perfect to a
nightmare existence.
The book
started quite slow with much detail but as the storyline developed and pace
picked up, I was hooked. Overall, I
found Tina's writing style excellent and compelling with the mix of mystery and
psychological thriller. Seskis has a
gift for dialogue, description, and drama. As the ‘What, Why, and how’ of Emily's predicament
progresses, it’s easy to arrive at
conclusions, and then there's a surprise.
The final chapters had an emotional impact for me that put aside all the
ambivalent feelings towards several of the players in the novel. Tina keeps you guessing to the last chapters.
Altogether an unexpected ending. Many
clues throughout the book led me to visualize different outcomes. But absolutely not the final one. If you appreciate a challenge, try reading
without too many outside distractions. A
very different and enjoyable read. I received the book from NetGalley for
review. Thank you NetGalley.
About the Author
Tina
Seskis grew up in Hampshire, the daughter of an airline engineer and a sales
rep. Her parents bestowed upon Tina a certain degree of eccentricity: her dad
amongst other things built a boat in the front garden on their commuter belt
housing estate, moved them into a touring caravan when their new house wasn t
built, and took them all over the world with his free air travel and limited
budget. Tina studied business at the University of Bath and then worked for
over 20 years in marketing, advertising and online, with varying degrees of
success. Before that she did a variety of other jobs including door to door
encylopedia selling in the US, industrial relations for Ford in Halewood,
Liverpool, and selling bacon butties with her granny in the Halfway Hut at
Wentworth Golf Club. Tina never intended writing a novel. She wrote One Step
Too Far over a two month period in summer 2010 and then gave up writing
entirely for well over a year, before writing her second novel A Serpentine
Affair in autumn 2011. Her third book (working title Collision) is due for
completion in 2013, and is the coming together of a key character from each of
the first two novels, if Tina can one day solve how to make the plot work. Tina
Seskis lives in North London with her husband and son.
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