My Sister's Bones: 'Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read' Guardian

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Unlike an author like Jodi Picoult, Cathi Hanauer does not delve into the minutia of Cassie's disease. I loved this sense of anxiety, fear, unhappiness, lack of trust and implication of threat created through the description, observations and detail of setting, Kate and the other characters.

Further, her exploration of the bond between sisters, what happens when it’s severed, and the secrets that families keep is very believable. Sally’s daughter Hannah left a few years ago due to her mothers drinking, and since then, Sally has let the alcohol run her life. It is being produced by BKStudios – the production outfit owned by legendary West End Producer and Everton Football Chairman Bill Kenwright. My initial attraction to this book was because of its setting (I have intimate knowledge of Herne Bay) and I was very curious to find out how well a thriller would work in what I think of as a pleasant but fairly boring seaside town. The book is about the sister of an anorexic girl in the NJ suburbs and her junior year in high school, what happens, how her family deals with the anorexia (not well) - but the first thing to throw me is the setting.

Although there were some characters that I found distinctly unlikeable, I could still believe in them and the situations they found themselves in. Nuala Ellwood is the author of two bestselling novels: My Sister's Bones, for which she was selected as one of the Observer's 'New Faces of Fiction 2017', and Day of the Accident. Pic is produced by Bill Kenwright ( Broken), and executive produced by David Gilbery ( The Lost Daughter) and Naomi George ( My Pure Land) for London-based BKStudios. But for someone like her, who is used to being so self-reliant, it's a hard pill to swallow to seek help from others.

I nearly gave up on the book as I found the narration very melodramatic and needlessly slow with too many dramatic pauses. Kate is the chief narrator of this novel, but the perspective does shift on to sister Sally, who is suffering from the effects of substance abuse.i haven't seen this connection in other books that i've read and was pleased to see anorexia linked to a politics distinct from societal pressures to be thin.