After finding out Constance is a connection to her mother she takes a chance and starts to grow, gain confidence and learn more about herself and accept who she is. Split in time between London and Los Angeles in the 80s and London in the present day, The Confession is a story about love, loss, desire and freedom.

opojnost drugim bićem, potreba da se s drugim bićem stopimo i ta opora nemogućnost istog istinski je dobro opisana; ili onaj osjećaj kad ti srce natekne od ljubavi, prve ili posljednje, sasvim svejedno; ili pak onaj trenutak kad se sklupčamo uz osobu koju volimo i udahnemo joj miris; možda onaj osjećaj kad ne znaš gdje ti prestaješ, a osoba koju voliš počinje (nije li i to pitanje identiteta? It’s perhaps also worth noting that Burton herself worked as a PA in the City before the publication in 2014 of her million-selling debut, The Miniaturist, so has first-hand experience of supporting herself in a menial role while quietly composing a piece of art. Rose is thirty four, and has spent most of her life seeking information about her mother, her father not telling her much. Past and present begin to collide as all that has been previously undisclosed is revealed, whether it is best for those still living that they do so, or not. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell.Burton makes great use of the dual narrative in this one, jumping back and forth through time between the 80s and 2017/18.

Burton offers various options for the women in the novel, whether that be abortion, single motherhood, or never having children at all. Another issue for me personally is that this last is solidly a contemporary piece compared to the other two; although The Confession, like The Muse which preceded it, makes use of a dual timeline.Once again I was spellbound by Burton’s masterful storytelling, this time focusing on books, what it means to be a mother and plenty of secrets. The proof is that I cleaned the kitchen, the bathroom and sorted out my wardrobe just so that I could carry on listening to it! These books often implement a dual timeline to tell both of these women's stories and towards the end a big secret will be revealed. At over 400 pages, it's not quite a 'read it in one sitting' book, but I tore through it within a day. I live in a fabricated present, and I’m constantly making up a future as well – and reimagining the past.

I have noticed in Jessie Burton’s books there is always a relationship between an older, more confident women befriending or mentoring a younger, more naive and self conscious woman.Meanwhile, Rose, unsure if she even wants to be a mother, drifts through a café job and wonders “if other couples dragged themselves across the seabed like this, and why they did it… Because there was nothing else to do?

On Thea’s birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present. What one notices here, however, is a more free-flowing aspect to her prose, which is plainer and less obstructed by overworked passages than her earlier work.It’s 1980, early winter, and a relationship ignites – initially nurturing, then torrid, as Elise, motherless from the age of nine, allows herself to love and be loved. This is strongly about women with the male characters little more than walk-on parts - which makes a nice change.