Please help me identify this book! Thanks. Maternal grief theme.

[Lurleene]

Hello, I've noticed there a few threads like this, I hope someone can help me cos this is driving me potty!.

I read this novel at least 5 years ago and it was set in contemporary times. It was set in a coastal town in the UK, possibly Kent or Norfolk. I think the cover showed the back view of a young girl standing on a stile or groyne over water.

The main character, the mother, had a baby and was still breastfeeding. She would take the baby to the family beach hut in the evening , feed the baby to sleep then have sex with her secret lover in the beach hut. I may be remembering this wrong but I think her elder daughter disappeared or drowned whilst the mother was with her lover. I think marshes rather than the sea may have been involved. .

Sorry for the scant detail, but if anyone recognises it please let me know.

It's not a book by Julie Myerson is it?

I can't think of the title of the one of hers I'm thinking of but I'll check.

I am almost certain it is Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson.

SarahAndFuck -By Jingo you're right! I was expecting that to take days. I just googled Julie Myerson and the cover was just as I remembered.

Thanks so much, it was driving me batty. Looking at the plot it's very strange that it is the beach hut scenes that stick in my mind rather than the anything else.

Thanks again.

I liked that book - very bleak and atmospheric.

I remember crying buckets.

You are welcome.

I'm surprised I recognised it because I'd forgotten the beach hut scenes as it was ages ago that I read it, it was the coastal town/marshland bit that jogged my memory.

I think it's her best book, I remember liking this one but not being keen on the others of hers that I tried.

I do remember finding the book very moving, but couldn't remember an awful lot about the story. I know I've read Me and the Fat Man too but I couldn't tell you anything about it, it was a very long time ago that I read it.

I find that I can get very engrossed in a novel but retain very little once I've finished it, which can be very frustrating. I think I will have to reread it now!

I think I have all of her books, I went through a bit of an obsession with her writing about 10 years ago.

I loved Laura Blundy, I think that was my favourite.