We slowly find out what happened to Olivia through her own words while we watch Abi try to come to the same result.Īt first, I had a hard time with this book. This book is written by switching POV’s from Abi (current) and Olivia (past). While battling through personal demons, her own mistakes, and the effects of being an overly controlling (but loving) parent, Abi sleuths her way through her own assumptions to find justice for her daughter and learn to love the budding life in her belly. The Night Olivia Fell follows her mother’s frazzled journey to finding answers about the events surrounding Olivia’s fall. Who is the father? Was Olivia’s ‘fall’ really an accident? Why is it so hard to convince the police to look into it? How do you move on when the core of your life lies motionless and empty in the hospital? As if that information wasn’t hard enough for her to digest, Olivia is pregnant. Her daughter is in the hospital, brain-dead, after a fall from the bridge. As any mother knows, a call in the middle of the night can never be good news so when Abi answers the phone, her stomach is a pit. In this 'complex, emotionally intense first novel' ( Publishers Weekly), USA TODAY bestselling author Christina McDonald weaves a suspenseful and heartwrenching tale of hidden relationships, devastating lies, and the power of a mother's love.On a night like any other, when single mother Abi falls asleep hard and fast, her teenage daughter, Olivia, has sneaked out of the home. With flashbacks of Olivia's own resolve to uncover family secrets, this taut and poignant novel asks: how well do you know your children? And how well do they know you? In this 'complex, emotionally intense first novel' ( Publishers Weekly), USA TODAY bestselling author Christina McDonald weaves a suspenseful and heartwrenching tale of hidden relationships, devastating lies, and the power of a mother's love. Was Olivia's fall an accident? Or something far more sinister? Heartbroken and grieving, she unravels the threads of her daughter's life. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia's fall an accident, Abi decides to find out what really happened that night.

And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia's wrists. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she's pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes a n ' atmospheric, absorbing page-turner' ( Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author) about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead.

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