Book after Book

By Araminta Hall Published by HarperPress A family employs a live-in nanny to look after their two children and she turns out to be a bit of a psycho. Don’t you think that this plot might have been used just a little too often? I did. For this reason, I approached Everything and Nothing with caution. The next thing I remember is a happy and satisfied smile on my lips as I finished the book not too long afterwards. In Everything and Nothing , readers are thrown into the life of the Donaldsons at a difficult time. Ruth and Christian have two little children, a nanny who’s just left them and a career to think of. While they try (and don’t really succeed) to juggle family and work commitments, Aggie arrives. With impeccable references and full of enthusiasm, she moves in with the family and, little by little, she becomes indispensable to the smooth running of the household. Smooth is, however, an adjective that can be only applied to what goes on on the surface. Deep down, the situation i...