![]() I told Laurie, a previous reviewer of this novel that I could cut and paste her review and it would be exactly what I thought of the book (except better written than I could manage) and I think I will actually do that. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.more They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day.īut even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. The dead man was Ismay’s stepfather, Guy. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, “Don’t look!” She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather’s lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, fol The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue. The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue.
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