It has been a really long time since my last review of the Waiting for Wednesday, the previous installment in the Freida Klein series, and that’s mainly because my library’s e-copies of the book lapsed and I waited a really long time for them to get it again (guess they noticed I never cancelled my hold on the book!)

Thursday’s Child is the most personal of the Freida Klein books because it concerns Freida’s own experience. After an old schoolmate tracks her down and asks her to help talk to her daughter, Becky. Freida finds out that the daughter has been raped – and realises the rapist was probably the same person who raped her all those years ago. Things take a dark turn when Becky dies, presumably by suicide but, possibly, Freida thinks, by murder. This propels Freida to go back to her hometown for the first time in decades and she doggedly investigates an event that the police don’t believe occurred.

Freida has always been a rather inscrutable character, so it was very interesting to see how she’s being propelled by emotions she doesn’t quite acknowledge, let alone understand. As much as Freida says she’s doing fine, better than before, we see her fraught relationship with her mother, we see her make a seemingly illogical decision in her personal life, and we see that over the course of the previous books, she has managed to make a circle of friends who will not leave her. I suspect it’s these people who are holding her up, because Freida is a woman who investigates based on her instinct and despite the fact that she is a psychotherapist, I don’t think she fully understands herself or her emotions yet.

Overall, this is a solid instalment in the series. Even though it’s been years since I read the previous book, I found that I slid back into Freida’s world pretty easily and didn’t have many issues remembering who was who. I’ll definitely have to find the next book in the series soon!