A Spark of Light, the number one Sunday Times Bestseller, is a fantastic page-turner, tackling the controversial issue of abortion and the pro-choice/pro-life debate with beautiful elegance.

The story begins at 5pm in a women’s centre in America and both those inside and outside the clinic have a story to tell.

A gunman, guided by his own personal agenda, has taken everyone inside the centre hostage. Shortly after arriving at the scene, police hostage negotiator Hugh McElroy, learns he has an enormous amount at stake for the first time in his career. Will he be able to talk the gunman down or will it be too late?

We are introduced to an array of characters who each tell their own story – a doctor, a nurse, patients, an anti-abortion campaigner, the gunman and a hostage negotiator.

Instead of a typical linear narrative, the story starts amid the action and unfolds backwards to the start of each person’s day, uncovering their reasons and motivations for being at the clinic.

A thrilling book from start to finish, you are kept on your toes wondering what will happen right up to the very last page. As soon as I finished, I wanted to pick it up and read it all over again.