She, You, I
Sally Keeble
Publication date: January 11th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary

An emotional page-turner of a story about a family torn apart by the legacy of war that asks the question: what happens to the hurt we can’t forget?
When Skye Stanhope returns to her grandmother’s childhood home, she’s searching for the roots of her life story. Why her tough-minded granny ran away to war. And why her brilliant mother died.

Behind the women’s successes, lies deep trauma. As Skye strips away the layers of secrecy, she confronts their inner torments: forces that bound the women together, but also tore them apart. It’s a journey from a poverty-stricken tenement block to an airbase in wartime Suffolk, through boom-time London to a coffee cart beside the sea.

Woven into the women’s lives is Tseng Hsiao Ling, a feisty, enigmatic seamstress whose fortunes become inextricably linked with theirs.

It’s a sweeping tale of love, war and family secrets over three generations.

Through each woman’s story, “She, You, I” holds up a mirror to the complexity of family relationships: mothers, sisters, daughters, and the unexpected twists in Skye’s search for closure.

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Author Bio:

Sally writes novels about the things she’s passionate about—the triumphs and tragedies of people’s lives, their families and life stories.

It’s what originally took her into journalism and then politics, in the UK and beyond. She spent her early years in the USA, Switzerland and Australia, returning to the UK after working as a journalist in South Africa. After serving as an MP, she worked in international development and travelled widely, especially in Africa and South Asia.

“She, You, I” is her first novel. She’s written nonfiction previously. Sally splits her time between Northampton and Bawdsey, a village in coastal Suffolk.

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Review

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

“In She, You, I” we follow the lives of three women during three different time periods. Maisie is “She” and her story starts in 1935 and her life is definitely not easy. With an abusive father at home she decides that she wants the total opposite for her own life. She doesn’t want to live in constant fear and hopes for the best.

“You” is Isla, Maisie’s daughter and we follow her through a whole different time period (1965 to the 2000’s) and then the “I” is the youngest generation i.e. Maisie’s granddaughter Skye who we follow in the present day.

Throughout the whole book the main theme is definitely Maisie’s upbringing, her trauma and her family story. The reader gets an emotional conclusion to that story thanks to Skye.

I have to admit that I didn’t expect this story but I was and am positively surprised by this book. There are so many traumas and emotions mentioned in this book, be it the abusive father, WWII or other things (that I can’t mention because of spoilers). I enjoyed the writing of the author and the relationship between these three powerful women.

Overall this was an emotional rollercoaster of a read and I can highly recommend it if you like historical fiction in different time periods.

*a review copy of this book has been sent to me in exchange for an honest review. This hasn’t influenced my rating!

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