SPOILERS!!!
This has been a very thought-provoking novel. The narrator, Chloe, as well as us readers, cannot be sure whether Dan is innocent or not. Chloe finds herself in a quandary because she wants to believe in him but at the same time if she decides to see him, she could endanger the custody of her own daughters.
At the end of the book the lawyer asks her to testify in favour of Dan, but Chloe is unsure to go. Besides, her daughter Alice gets sick. It is then that Alice tells her that the photo in which she appears seminaked was taken by Lucy, and they didn't say anything because Lucy took Dan's camera without permission and was afraid of being punished. That makes Chloe decide to go to the trial and testify. During the break she is in the bathroom, and the representative of Dan's union appears and thanks her, but she also says that Dan and his wife are back together, which hurts Chloe terribly. Dan is acquitted, and Chloe goes home in silence.
In a gesture of goodwill Chloe leaves the origami flowers that Alice made the day Dan was at home. When Dan gets it, he calls, and during the conversation he tells her that he and Helena are not back together. Chloe has been lied to, and she tells him to come home, and they finally manage to sort out their matters.
In the last chapter we discover that the girl who reported having being abused was actually attacked by her uncle, and he is arrested.
I really enjoyed the book even though it was uncomfortable about some very delicate matters.
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