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Baby Doll by Hollie Overton (first published in 2016 by Cornerstone)
This is Lily’s moment. After eight years in captivity, she is outside. 3110 days without fresh air, and now she is surrounded by it.
Her captor forgot to lock her in; a simple mistake which is the spark that fuels her. Grabbing her daughter, Sky, and running like hell, Lily leaves the cabin that was her prison for so long, making her way to her home and her family; the people that kept her going.
Most importantly, she is making her way back to her other half; to her twin sister, Abby. Ragged, weak and malnourished, Lily has never felt stronger.
Despite years passing since her sister’s disappearance, Abby knows that Lily is alive – they’re twins, after all. A special connection, best friends; soul mates. Despite her own life caving in around her, despite the drugs and alcohol and self-loathing, Abby never gives up hope of seeing her sister again.
When she gets the call that Lily has come home, her life shifts a gear, and she is renewed with purpose.
So much has changed since Lily was taken; her family, her home, her body. One thing that has not changed is her determination. She leads the police to the exact location of her kidnapper, tormentor and rapist, and she watches as he is bungled into a police van and taken away.
Little does she know that this is not the end of her ordeal; it is only the beginning.
Lily is now faced with freedom, and the myriad associations with this; she needs to learn to heal and move on, and deal with life’s new challenges as best she can. No longer physically shackled; she is now constrained by memory.
Baby Doll is action packed from the first sentence and the pace never slows. the harrowing tension created by the shadow of an oppressor never ceases; the reader as suspicious as Lily is.
Hollie Overton has laid the table for an emotional feast, and the reader has no chance but to devour it. The bonds between sisters, and particularly twins, as well as maternal love are amplified in this book; a stark contrast to the hatred to which Lily and any other victims were subjected. Baby Doll oozes strength, pleads forgiveness and lauds redemption, and it is one hell of a ride.
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