"I've named that feeling the emptiness. When I feel far away and isolated. I have days where I am consumed by anxiety and loneliness, and just feel so flat. Lyla will be at school and I'll be at home all alone and feeling like I have no place in the world, or like I am a speck of nothingness, desperate for my life not to feel so sad."
Robin Wilde is a single mum; she loves her job, she has a great daughter, and she has a best friend and an Aunt Kath who love her to the moon and back. Looking in, everything seems fine, but some days Robin doesn't feel like getting dressed, or going out, and sometimes things feel a little grey, and empty. Robin wants to change her life; she wants to let go of the emptiness and break out, but the emptiness might not be so willing to let go of Robin. It's time for Robin Wilde to change her life.
I was hooked on the first half of this book; I really related to the feelings that Robin was describing of having everything going so well and yet still feeling so empty or lonely. I was really rooting for her in the first half of the book and was interested to see where her story went. However, for me the second half went downhill; I became quite annoyed at the way Robin was presented, she just came across as very selfish and uncaring. Take Kath for example; Kath who is essentially her mother and drops everything to support her with Lyla, and who is clearly struggling with losing her partner, but Robin doesn't seem interested in helping others out. The resolution seems to occur very quickly and there's very little build up to it; I think this started as a very strong story but just got a bit lost as it went on.
Robin Wilde is a single mum; she loves her job, she has a great daughter, and she has a best friend and an Aunt Kath who love her to the moon and back. Looking in, everything seems fine, but some days Robin doesn't feel like getting dressed, or going out, and sometimes things feel a little grey, and empty. Robin wants to change her life; she wants to let go of the emptiness and break out, but the emptiness might not be so willing to let go of Robin. It's time for Robin Wilde to change her life.
I was hooked on the first half of this book; I really related to the feelings that Robin was describing of having everything going so well and yet still feeling so empty or lonely. I was really rooting for her in the first half of the book and was interested to see where her story went. However, for me the second half went downhill; I became quite annoyed at the way Robin was presented, she just came across as very selfish and uncaring. Take Kath for example; Kath who is essentially her mother and drops everything to support her with Lyla, and who is clearly struggling with losing her partner, but Robin doesn't seem interested in helping others out. The resolution seems to occur very quickly and there's very little build up to it; I think this started as a very strong story but just got a bit lost as it went on.