A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison

I hate that I am too busy to write a long, love letter to this book so this will have to do:

This is a wonderfully written story, with well develop characters,  that will keep you guessing to the last page - I absolutely loved it!

Book Description via Amazon

Fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Girl on the Train will devour this page-turning literary debut about a harrowing coming-of-age and a marriage under siege from O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison.
 
“Delicious, lazy-day reading. Just don’t underestimate the writing.”—O: The Oprah Magazine(Editor’s Pick)
 
“Ellison is a tantalizing storyteller . . . moving her story forward with cinematic verve.”—USA Today
 
“Rich with suspense . . . Lovely writing guides us through, driven by a quiet generosity.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Book Club Pick) 
At nineteen, Annie Black abandons California for a London winter of drinking to oblivion and looking for love in the wrong places. Twenty years later, she is a happily married mother of three living in San Francisco. Then one morning, a photograph arrives in her mailbox, and an old obsession is awakened.
 
After a return trip to London, Annie’s marriage falters, her store floods, and her son, Robbie, takes a night-time ride that nearly costs him his life. Now Annie must fight to save her family by untangling the mysteries of that reckless winter in Europe that drew an invisible map of her future.
 
With the brilliant pacing and emotional precision that won Jan Ellison an O. Henry Prize for her first published story, A Small Indiscretion announces a major new voice in suspense fiction as it unfolds a story of denial, obsession, love, forgiveness—and one woman’s reckoning with her own fateful mistakes.