While I Was Sleeping by Dani Atkins

What if someone else was living your happy ever after? 

When Maddie wakes up in a hospital bed, she can't remember anything about what happened to her or what has changed.
She just remembers she was about to be married and had everything to look forward to.

But it seems life has become a lot more complicated while she has been asleep …

Title: While I was Sleeping

Author: Dani Atkins

Published By: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 23rd August 2018

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Our Review

A beautifully written tear jerker about unconditional love and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.

My heart is hurting after having finished this book.

It tells the tale of Maddie who wakes up from a coma one day to find that her world has changed dramatically. 

The relationships in her life were suddenly fraught with dilemma after dilemma and the characters were all torn as to where their loyalties should lie. 

I put myself in Maddie’s position whilst reading the book and found my heart utterly broken.

But then once I got to know Chloe I found that I really felt empathy for her too even though I was determined not to like her. As much as I did like her I firmly remained team Maddie throughout.

Ryan annoyed me quite a lot even if he was absolutely gorgeous, I suppose he was suffering from confusion after being thrown into the situation he was but I didn't like his attitude to Maddie sometimes and thought he could have handled some situations so much better.

This book has made me cry and shocked me in parts as I really didn’t see some things coming.

It's an emotional rollercoaster that will break your heart. When I woke up the morning after I read it I was very grateful to have my husband's arms around me as I can't imagine how Maddie must have felt to have lost everything that was precious to her.

I really think that Dani Atkins should be sponsored by Kleenex as she sure knows how to write a weepy.

Sincerely

Book Angel x

About the Author

Dani Atkins was born in London, and grew up in Cockfosters, Hertfordshire. She moved to a small village in 1984, where she has lived ever since in a 350-year-old cottage with her husband, two (now grown-up) children, one Siamese cat and a very soppy Border Collie.

Dani has been writing for fun all her life, but following the 2013 publication of her novel FRACTURED (published as THEN AND ALWAYS in the US), has made writing her full-time career. Her other novels include THE STORY OF US (2014); OUR SONG (2016); PERFECT STRANGERS (a standalone eBook novella published in December 2016) and THIS LOVE (2017). In 2018 THIS LOVE won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award at the RoNAs ceremony in London. Her new novel, WHILE I WAS SLEEPING, publishes in August 2018.

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