No Place Like Home - Mary Higgins Clark

Having recently hit a reading slump after finishing the Hunger Games trilogy and sulking for several weeks, I had a good scour on Amazon to see if any of my favourite authors had released any new material. Unfortunately for me, new releases are not due till October, so I had to make do with some recommendations from Amazon. At the time, a few weeks ago they had a loyalty promotion where you received a certain percentage back of the price you had paid for the books if you reached a certain level. Unfortunately for me, I only downloaded one book, forgot about the promotion and didn’t receive any ... more

The inspiration for “No Place Like Home” is explained in the Acknowledgements, where author Mary Higgins Clark explains that she was speaking to her real estate agent friend, who “asked me if I knew about a New Jersey law that states that a real estate agent must inform a prospective buyer if the home he or she is considering carries a stigma that might cause psychological damage to the purchaser. Maybe there’s a book in it for you”. The woman was right, as Higgins has creates a successful book around this very premise. On her thirty fourth birthday, Celia Nolan and her four year old son Jack ... more