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The Crooked House de Christobel Kent

The Crooked House

Autor Christobel Kent
en Limba Engleză Paperback

"IN THE CHILLING TRADITION "of Daphne du Maurier and with the acuity of Kate Atkinson comes an atmospheric psychological thriller about an isolated British village and the sinister abandoned house that holds the key to its most shameful secrets.

Alison is as close to anonymous as you can get: she has no ties and no home, and her only anchors are her boyfriend and her small backroom job in publishing. Which is exactly how she wants it. Because once, Alison was a teenager named Esme who lived in a remote, dilapidated house by a bleak estuary with her parents and three siblings. One night something terrible happened in the family s crooked house, leaving Alison the only survivor. In order to escape from the horror she witnessed, she moved away from the village, changed her name, and cut herself off from her past.

But now her boyfriend has invited her to a wedding being held in her old hometown, which means returning there for the first time since that night. She decides that she s never going to overcome the trauma of what happened to her without confronting it, so she accepts his invitation. But soon Alison realizes that the events of that night left their awful mark not just on her but on the entire village, and she begins to suspect that everyone there might somehow be implicated in her family s murder.

Christobel Kent s "The Crooked House "is a haunting thriller about one woman s search for the truth about her past through a closed community full of dark secrets."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250117908
ISBN-10: 1250117909
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Christobel Kent was born in London and grew up in London and Essex, including a stint on the Essex coast on a Thames barge with three siblings and four step-siblings, before reading English at Cambridge. She has worked in publishing and TEFL teaching, and has lived in Modena, in northern Italy, and in Florence. She has written several novels set in Italy, including The Drowning River and A Murder in Tuscany, and lives in Cambridge with her husband and five children.

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One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor.

This is Alison's story. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree Yard, this stunning psychological thriller from the author of The Loving Husband follows one woman's search for the truth about her family history. Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar.

But once Alison was someone else: once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy, exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought. Then one night violence was unleashed in the crooked house, in a nightmare that only Alison survived and from which she's been running ever since.

Only when she falls for the charismatic Paul does Alison realise that to have any chance of happiness, she must return to her old life and face a closed community full of dark secrets. As she seeks to uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night, Alison begins to question everything she thought she knew. Is there anyone she can trust?

Recenzii

An utterly compulsive psychological thriller. I loved it.
Brilliant...A spooky, gripping and affecting story.
Atmospheric and eerily menacing, this cracking psychological thriller demands to be read with all the lights on.
Compulsive, unsettling and scary as hell.
God, I literally could not put this down. Teenage girl hides upstairs as someone massacres her entire family. Fast forward and she has a new name and a new identity, and a new boyfriend who invites her to a wedding...which is taking place in the town where the massacre occurred. For various reasons, she can't not go. At this point you cancel dinner, curl up on the sofa and pull an all-nighter. Christobel Kent is a brilliant writer.
Echoes of Christie and du Maurier in this fine thriller.

Demands to be devoured in one sitting.
An atmospheric psychological thriller about a community full of secrets.
This complex, fascinating psychological thriller has a real twist at the end.
Packed with well-drawn characters, full of atmosphere, twists, turns and menace, this dark psychological chiller has an ending that leaves the heart pounding.
Thrilling.
Beware sleep deprivation. Christobel Kent is one mesmerising writer. A brilliant thriller.
A gripping story of dark secrets.
[A] dark psychologically chilling tale...The spin of wheels within wheels is mesmerising, ratcheted when Alison revisits the house of old, dark secrets, and the threads of false memory in her life of anonymity are unpicked. Nothing is as it seemed to be.
Oh my goodness - what a book! So beautifully tense... just glorious.
Tense, menacing, surprising and clever.
Gripping.
A gripping thriller, beautifully unfolded, with gorgeous, evocative writing that builds to a shattering climax.
The Crooked House hooks the reader though the gut from the first dark page.
Brilliant, dark and vivid and almost unbearably suspenseful with an atmospheric setting in the wild estuary village and a sense of menace and claustrophobia as the local community clings to its secrets.
Terrific, powerful and unsettling; I read it with my heart in my mouth.
Almost indecently good. A psychological page-turner imbued with depth and humanity. Broadchurch meets Rebecca. I loved it.
Sinister...Christobel Kent always writes with skill and elegance.
Beautiful, atmospheric writing with a perfectly unravelled mystery.
A spine-tingling and haunting tale.
A psychological thriller of the highest quality.
Creepily claustrophobic, the story builds to a thrilling climax, and combined with Kent's surefooted plotting, atmospheric prose and firm grasp pf psychology, the novel is a rare triumph. However it's the kind of book that comes with a serious warning...[it's] impossible to put down.
Gripped from the first page, the reader is taken on a tense, menacing and atmospheric journey culminating in a startling revelation.
A darkly impressive novel...The sinister, windswept town of Saltleigh is a brooding backdrop, and the characters are sharply drawn.