"It was a time when nobody called. Early evening, the hottest August in living memory.A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again.
She tells him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate. The long, blistering days spent sunbathing; the airless nights filled with inexplicable noises; the words that appear on the windows, written in dust.
Where is her family now? Is she telling the truth? Can the man be trusted? Beautiful and disturbing, her story – retold in his words – reaches towards those frayed edges of reality where each of us, if only once, glimpses something nobody will ever explain."
Hi Guys, really sorry I haven't posted in a while. Took a break over Christmas but I am back at it now.
This novel unfolds through the eyes of an unknown narrator. Initially we know nothing about them or their connection to later events. The narrator tells the story of an unconventional family who return to the area, a dark history is hinted at. The family live in a decrepit housing estate surrounded by eccentrics and other shady characters on the edge of town.
This story is ambiguous. A lot is left up to the reader to form their own judgement as to what is fact or fallacy, real or imagined, nothing is "black or white."
Found the beginning to be a tad difficult to get into, it tended to jump around a bit but once you get into the story it does become a compelling reading. I had to know how it would end. In some ways it was a frustrating read in that it raised more questions than where answered. There is a sinister undertone to the novel that keeps the tension tightly ratcheted.
Overall I enjoyed it and the cover is gorgeous. Age Rating 14+ urban sinister.
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