Where did it all go wrong? Because Abi can see that Olivia's fall may not have been an accident and also, Olivia is pregnant. Being a single mother, her and Olivia were close and Abi just wanted to protect her. Her mother, Abi, is understandably devastated. Olivia is a 17 year old girl when she falls from a bridge and is brain damaged beyond all hope. With flashbacks of Olivia’s own resolve to uncover family secrets, this taut and emotional novel asks: how well do. Was Olivia’s fall an accident? Or something far more sinister?Ĭhristina McDonald weaves a suspenseful and heartwrenching tale of hidden relationships, devastating lies, and the power of a mother’s love. Heartbroken and grieving, she unravels the threads of her daughter’s life. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia’s fall an accident, Abi decides to find out what really happened that night. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. All you can do is live with it and move forward.From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Do No Harm and Behind Every Lie comes an emotionally charged domestic suspense novel about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. You can’t go back and make things better. I was rooting for Abi the whole time, and you would, too.įavorite quotes from The Night Olivia Fell: I read this book in one sitting and was hooked from the start. The story unraveled layers of lies, dredged up old truths, and laid to rest painful ones. The Night Olivia Fell took me through a whodunit mystery, complete with believable characters, a standard, but page-turning plot, and an emotional ending. She grew with herself, and with others, and though she lost her daughter, she gained, oddly, much more. I saw her grow, though, through the pain. I felt Abi’s pain, and her frustration and fear for her daughter’s situation. The writing is emotionally charged – I felt Olivia’s frustration with her mother and herself while she was alive and healthy. She’s on a quest to find out who and why, and nothing, not even her frightening past, can stop her. Abi knows this was no accident and that someone hurt her child. But, there’s something else – and she must be kept on life support. She’s right – her only daughter Olivia has suffered permanent brain damage.

Abi is a single mother who gets a phone call at 4am – and she knows deep in her bones that it can’t be anything good.

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