This wasn’t meant to Happen Ali Harris

THIS WASN’T MEANT TO HAPPEN BY ALI HARRIS

Paperback published by One More Chapter 11th September 2025

ISBN 9780008708467

For Sofie King, love has always been a risk. She’s been living under a thundercloud since her dad’s sudden death when she was just a teenager, building a career in insurance and letting the numbers predict the safest options. But meeting husband Rory was like a ray of sunshine breaking through he can’t help but always see the bright side.

When Sofie falls pregnant, the couple begin to dream of their future as a three. But just a week before her due date, the worst thing imaginable happens and there is no baby to bring home from the hospital.

Sofie and Rory are cast into the chaos of the deepest, darkest grief. Can they find hope again, somewhere in this raging storm? Is there still a future for their marriage? The overwhelming love they have for life. Sofie carried means nothing will ever be the same again.

MY REVIEW

My heart goes out to author Ali Harris who has bravely reflected her new novel , based on her third baby girl that died inside her at twenty-four weeks, with having to give birth naturally, to a stillborn baby. This story had me in tears, Sofie King, and Rory, are blissfully happy together, with Rory, that proposed out of the blue. Rory is always sees the positive side of things, he has that feeling getting married is meant to be. By an accident Sofie falls pregnant. It’s so sad, at thirty-nine weeks Sofie hasn’t felt her baby move for several hours. Sofie has to give birth to her precious stillborn baby. The story is true in what the process is once a stillborn baby has been delivered. Although it says in this book one in 225 pregnancies ends in stillbirth in the Uk, over 35 years ago I used to work in labour ward and can only recall one baby that was born stillborn, however that was 35 years ago. Thanks to all the midwifes in the UK, that have compassion, in understanding the heartache that a mother goes through when a mother gives birth to a stillborn baby, and for being there when my daughters baby died inside her. My daughters issue was different her baby died inside her very early on in pregnancy with it having to be taken away, nevertheless it was a devastating time where I was right by her side in the hospital. I think maybe a box of tissues, might be need reading this novel. This Wasn’t Meant To Happen by author Ali Harris is one novel I highly recommend reading.

Thank you harper Collins for sending me this book to read and review

About author Ali Harris

Ali Harris lives in Cambridge with her husband and three children. She has a degree in performing Arts and cities theatre as her third love after her family and books. There’s not a musical she’s seen and she has seen many that she hasn’t loved. Prior to having children, Ali was a journalist and wrote for a variety of women’s magazines including Glamour, Cosmo, Red, Stylist and Elle. She is the author of three previous novels, including Sunday Times bestsellers Miracle on Regent Street and The First Last Kiss, as well as Written in the Stars. Her new novel was written after a prolonged break following the loss of her baby girl, late in pregnancy. https://www.instagram.com/aliharriswriter