Book Club Friday: Reconstructing Amelia

It's Friday which means it's time for another Book Club Friday!  This week I'm sharing Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight.  My friend Tess recommended it and I trust her recommendations so

Synopsis (from goodreads.com):

A stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter's life, sifting through her emails, texts, and social media to piece together the shocking truth about the last days of her life.

Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating.

Kate can't believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl who's never been in trouble would do something like that. But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kate's faced with far more devastating news. Amelia is dead.

Seemingly unable to cope with what she'd done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the school's roof in an act of "spontaneous" suicide. At least that's the story Grace Hall and the police tell Kate. And overwhelmed as she is by her own guilt and shattered by grief, it is the story that Kate believes until she gets the anonymous text:

She didn't jump.

Sifting through Amelia's emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Hall's roof that day-and why she died.

Told in alternating voices, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies, of love and betrayal, of trusted friends and vicious bullies. It's about how well a parent ever really knows a child and how far one mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.

My thoughts:

My friend Tess recommended it and she's usually spot on with her books.  I have to admit though, it took a long time for me to get into the book.  I actually debated stopping at one point, but I wanted to see it through.  Once it going though, I couldn't put it down.  The book was well written and the ending actually surprised me.  I won't go to much into it as not to spoil it, but I recommend giving it a read.