Hello everyone, happy Monday! Today I’m going to be posting my review of Sally Hepworth’s novel The Things We Keep.

The Things We Keep by: Sally Hepworth: Anna Foster is thirty-eight years old and has very early on-set Alzheimer’s disease. Her family has to put her in an old folk’s home for her own safety, but that’s where she meets Luke who is in the exact same predicament she is in, and this causes some stir-ups. Eve Bennett is one of the workers at the home who has been dealt a horrible fate, but it’s her relationship with Anna that helps her cope and believe in love again. This story was not only heartbreaking but it was also cute to see a couple fall in love who can’t remember each other. The fact that Hepworth chose to focus on that part of dementia, the falling in love and choosing to be happy was really good. Most times you get the sob story of the loved one forgetting the people they know, and yes that happened in this novel, but that wasn’t the main focus and that’s so refreshing. It was definitely a good plot, especially interweaving it with different perspectives, it was really well done. The characters were raw and real. The one thing that was truly bothersome was the author kept trying to force this mystery and alluding to an incident that happened, that got annoying fast, especially when the reader could figure it out because the author pretty much spelt it out but wouldn’t full come out and say it. Otherwise, this was a great, fast-paced read.