Best booktrail of the Month for May 2022

Submitted: 3rd June 2022

Best booktrail of the Month for May 2022

May is over and it’s time to tell you what book has won The BookTrail’s Book of the Month award!

It’s always hard to pick but I have found this month easier than most. There was only one book that it was ever going to be. One book that made me so angry, so emotional and so invested in the characters that I wrote to the author on twitter as soon as I had read it. What did I say? I had to vent about one character in particular. Told her I loved the book but that there was someone who had really rattled me. Now if that is not the feeling you should get with a good book I don’t know what is….

Why this won May’s Book (Trail) of the Month

It’s powerful writing

Brilliant characterisation

A character I wanted to smack or throw something at.

The setting of New York and the sense of that city was really well done

I couldn’t stop thinking about the characters after I had long finished the book.

Drum roll please…..

The plot:

1955 – In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth . . .

Twenty years later in the same apartment, Ava Winters is keeping her own secret. Her mother has become erratic, haunted by something Ava doesn’t understand – until one sweltering July morning, she disappears.

Soon after her mother’s departure, Ava receives a parcel. Addressed simply to ‘Apartment 3B’, it contains a photo of a woman with the word ‘LIAR’ scrawled across it. Ava does not know what it means or who sent it.

But if she can find out then perhaps she’ll discover the answers she is seeking – and meet the woman at the heart of it all . . .

WINNER!!!!!! That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan

BookTrail locations in That Green Eyed Girl

This is a brilliant read. It got me feeling so many things. Anger, hurt, a need for revenge, a close friendship with one character, the need to shout about it to so many people.

This book is good. Very good. Get it now!

Congrats Julie!