Book Synopsis:
One more little secret … one more little lie…
When the body of a pregnant fifteen-year-old is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts have seen them cloistered away…
As a police investigation gets underway, the lives of Hope, Lara and Annie are examined, and the staff who work at the home are interviewed, leading to shocking and distressing revelations … and clear evidence that someone is seeking revenge.
A gritty, dark and devastating psychological thriller, The Home is also an emotive drama and a piercing look at the underbelly of society, where children learn what they live … if they are allowed to live at all.
Home is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the link below.
My Review:
I thought this was a fantastic book. It manages to be a tense psychological thriller but also very emotional and heartbreaking at the same time which I thought was cleverly done.
The story is told from the point of view of three girls Annie, Hope and Lara which made for very interesting reading. As the story unfolds and we learn more about each girl we are able to learn more about their past and all they have gone through. The stories are all quite realistic, even though you hope that stuff like this doesn’t happen, and this means the reader is immediately drawn into the story and feels sorry for the characters. Some of the scenes are quite shocking but not overdone so you feel that the author is just doing it for the shock factor. This further adds to how realistic it seems and makes the book quite hard to read on places.
This book was surprisingly gripping and I found it quite difficult to put down at times as I had to keep reading to find out what was going to happen. Although quite a bleak story the author has included some happier moments, especially between Annie and Hope which makes it the reader hope for a different ending that is mentioned at the beginning of the book. The setting of the home was also brilliantly described and I liked how the physical isolation of the home seems to reflect the girls own feelings at times. I really wished I could reach into the book and give them a huge hug.
The ending was very surprising and I wasn’t expecting it at all. I was trying to guess how things would end, as I didn’t think it could be as easy as the author had hinted. I thought it was extremely clever how the author managed to fool the reader this way.
Huge thanks to the lovely Karen from Orenda Books for my copy of this book and to the equally lovely Anne Cater for inviting me into the blog tour.
About The Author:
Sarah Stovell was born in 1977 and spent most of her life in the Home Counties before a season working in a remote North Yorkshire youth hostel made her realise she was a northerner at heart. She now lives in Northumberland with her partner and two children and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lincoln University. Her debut psychological thriller, Exquisite, is set in the Lake District.
Follow Sarah on Twitter: @sarahlovescrime
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Thanks for the blog tour support Jo x
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