A Small Indiscretion Book Reviews

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A small indiscretion. A fabulous read. Cuts right to the bone.

Slow going.... .....and overly descriptive, but did get through it. The end.

Intriguing, demanding. Lots of detail, lots of feeling and emotions, and lots of tell me more. This is the story of Annie Black. This is her story of how one decision to go to London one youthful moment in time led to numerous other, what she thought were small, unimportant decisions. Years later, married to the man she fell in love with on that trip and a child's life in the balance, Annie must rethink, relive that time away from all she knew to hopefully rebuild her relationships with her husband and son.

A Small Indiscretion. Fantastic. Perfect.

choices made at 19 years of age are affecting her life now. Poignantly depicting the ramifications of ‘A Small Indiscretion’ on life many years later, Jan Ellison uses flashback retelling and current concerns to follow the life of Annie, and how she believes her choices made at 19 years of age are affecting her life now some 21 years later. Annie, at 19, took $200 and headed out to find more, and every choice she made then have ostensibly led her to her present life in California, married with three children. But she is seeing some ‘crossovers’ between her choices and those her children are facing, and the arrival of an old photograph from her past spurs her to seek out answers and closure. In the present, Annie’s life is reasonably successful and married to Jonathan, a doctor, with three children and a successful lighting fixtures store in San Francisco. She’s carefully put her past obsessions away, although the need for some closure does occasionally haunt. When comparing the newly arrived photo to her hatbox full of keepsakes, she realizes that there are some issues and events she had never ‘sorted’. Told in a letter form to her son Marcus, this is Annie’s way of explaining her choices and actions, and her perception of their effect on her life at present. Raw and honest, Annie doesn’t hold back on her own culpability in questionable choices, but what emerges is a strongly developed picture of a woman who did what was needed, and often wanted, to get to her now. While the format is a bit unusual, and plenty of switches from past to present, you are drawn in to the story, wanting to know or be Annie, even as you don’t want to live her experiences. With plenty of emotional turmoil to sort through, you are never quite sure what you think, only that you need to keep reading. The suspense comes in needing to know that things can work for Annie to find happiness, and you want that for her. Plenty of twists and some highly unexpected moments are liberally sprinkled through the story, few are foreshadowed and each one enriches the emotional impact of the story for Annie and readers alike. A wonderful debut novel, full of lush prose and emotive description with characters that come to life and hold onto your thoughts long after the last page is turned. I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.

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