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Our House by Louise Candlish
Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Simon & Schuster UK
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On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue.
Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it.
For better, for worse.
When Fi arrives home to find a removals van outside her house, she is completely blind-sided. Trinity Avenue has been her family’s home for years. Where are all her belongings? How could this have happened? Desperately calling her ex-husband, Bram, who owns the house with her, Fi discovers he has disappeared.
For richer, for poorer.
The more Fi uncovers, the more she realises their lives have been turned upside by a nightmare of their own making. A devastating crime has been committed, but who exactly is the guilty party? What has Bram hidden from her – and what has she hidden from him?
Till death us do part.
Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it.
For better, for worse.
When Fi arrives home to find a removals van outside her house, she is completely blind-sided. Trinity Avenue has been her family’s home for years. Where are all her belongings? How could this have happened? Desperately calling her ex-husband, Bram, who owns the house with her, Fi discovers he has disappeared.
For richer, for poorer.
The more Fi uncovers, the more she realises their lives have been turned upside by a nightmare of their own making. A devastating crime has been committed, but who exactly is the guilty party? What has Bram hidden from her – and what has she hidden from him?
Till death us do part.
My thoughts:
I love the way the sense of foreboding is instant when you start chapter one with the date being Friday 13th. Then your stomach starts to churn as Fi Lawson drives towards her house after a short break away and realises that the removal van parked outside is delivering all the worldly goods belonging to another family into her home. And she hasn't sold it.
I could actually imagine the scenario and how I would feel in her shoes. Especially once she has confronted the people moving in - then realises that not only all of her possessions are missing, but so are her children. Total panic sets in!
This book is the subject of nightmares and the manner in which Louise Candlish has presented it to us is pure brilliance. We have Fi's side of the story being related by the transcripts of podcasts (very 21st century!) and Bram, her ex husband, telling his side via word documents which he intends sending to his ex wife at a later date to try and explain why and how their safe, if slightly quirky, home life has been completely blown apart.
I don't think I have ever read a book which has built such an air of tension and dread as I worked my way through it, with each revelation making me scream "noooo!" at the pages as each character made decisions which could make things worse rather than better - if only they trusted and communicated with each other more then the whole scenario could have been so different.
Top class plotting and writing from Louise Candlish has put this book in my top scorers' list for 2018.
This book is the subject of nightmares and the manner in which Louise Candlish has presented it to us is pure brilliance. We have Fi's side of the story being related by the transcripts of podcasts (very 21st century!) and Bram, her ex husband, telling his side via word documents which he intends sending to his ex wife at a later date to try and explain why and how their safe, if slightly quirky, home life has been completely blown apart.
I don't think I have ever read a book which has built such an air of tension and dread as I worked my way through it, with each revelation making me scream "noooo!" at the pages as each character made decisions which could make things worse rather than better - if only they trusted and communicated with each other more then the whole scenario could have been so different.
Top class plotting and writing from Louise Candlish has put this book in my top scorers' list for 2018.
About the Author:
OUR HOUSE is published in the UK in April 2018 by Simon & Schuster and in the US in August 2018 by Berkley.
Though her stories are about people with complicated lives and dark dilemmas, Louise tries to get through the day without too much drama of her own. She lives in South London with her husband and daughter. Follow her day to day on Twitter at @louise_candlish or get updates at www.louisecandlish.com
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