This ticks so many boxes for me in a psychological thriller. Unreliable narrators tick, strange goings on tick, dysfunctional family tick.
The prologue really sets the scene and once you’ve finished the book I suggest you go back and re read it as it will make you view things differently.
Narrated by Amy and her brother Nick you get to see two different perspectives and this really makes you question everything. Varying recollections throughout make you wonder who you can trust, are any of them being truthful?
Sanjida writes relationships with brutal honesty, families are never perfect and she really gets into the nitty gritty of the emotional damage families can cause each other. After all who knows you better than your family, which buttons to press , how to inflict the most pain. This book really captures that fragility and how a horrific event can either bring you closer or rip you apart.
Set in both Somerset in the past and an Italian island in the present you have settings that really influence the story and are almost characters themselves.
This has serious Agatha Christie vibes with the Somerset property, a dysfunctional family, a good mystery and an amateur sleuth determined to find out the truth.
The prologue really sets the scene and once you’ve finished the book I suggest you go back and re read it as it will make you view things differently.
Narrated by Amy and her brother Nick you get to see two different perspectives and this really makes you question everything. Varying recollections throughout make you wonder who you can trust, are any of them being truthful?
Sanjida writes relationships with brutal honesty, families are never perfect and she really gets into the nitty gritty of the emotional damage families can cause each other. After all who knows you better than your family, which buttons to press , how to inflict the most pain. This book really captures that fragility and how a horrific event can either bring you closer or rip you apart.
Set in both Somerset in the past and an Italian island in the present you have settings that really influence the story and are almost characters themselves.
This has serious Agatha Christie vibes with the Somerset property, a dysfunctional family, a good mystery and an amateur sleuth determined to find out the truth.