A Stitch in Time
Publication Date: October 31, 2020
Imagine being thirty-eight years old and returning to your aunt's home that she has just willed to you in a quaint village in England. This is where we find our narrator Bronwyn. The reader quickly finds out though that this home does not hold all good memories for Bronwyn. The last time she was in the house a great tragedy happened, a tragedy that changed the course of her life forever and altered the person that she is today.
Twenty-three years ago Bronwyn was at the home of her Aunt Judith and Uncle Stan known as Thorne Manor. When tragedy struck forcing her to not return to the home until it is deeded to her in her Aunt Judith's will. The home is old, two hundred years old, and has been passed down through Uncle Stan's family for generations. Bronwyn used to spend her summers with Aunt Judith and Uncle Stan and did for as long as she could remember up until the age of fifteen. She is an only child and made a childhood friend at a young age in their home. His name is William and only Bronwyn can see him. William and Bronwyn grow up in the house together, spending their summers together and even experiencing awkward teenage years together. Until that night, twenty-three years ago...
Bronwyn at thirty-eight has been through a lot. She has been in therapy, gotten a PhD, married and been widowed, lost her mother, and has now lost her aunt. She has been through a lot in her short lifetime and coming back to the manor brings all those memories rushing back and she finds herself wishing she had her childhood friend back, William. William was always there for Bronwyn, always supportive, never questions her motives, just relishes in her company. He is a wonderful childhood friend that turns into Bronwyn's first love. When tragedy at Thorne Manor strikes Bronwyn at the age of fifteen she is quickly rushed off to a psyche hospital and forced to believe that William never existed, that he was only an imaginary friend created by a child who was lonely and is now too old to have imaginary friends.
I greatly enjoyed A Stitch in Time. The story itself was a very unique idea. I felt that Bronwyn was a very complex character. She has dealt with a lot and is still trying to deal with a lot on her own now. Any support system that she ever builds for herself seems to always be tragically ripped away from her. She is made to believe that William is a figment of her imagination, and after reading I still find myself wondering the same. Is William a coping mechanism for Bronwyn? The reader is able to draw their own conclusions and it is a mystery to ponder. The novel also contains some really steamy romantic scenes that paint a picture of the closeness that William and Bronwyn share with each other. And the mystery of the murders on the moors gives the reader plenty of twist and turns to try and guess who was responsible. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good mystery and a story that makes you question realty and versus imagination.
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