Book Synopsis:
The Mordaunts aren’t like most families . . .
For one, their family home is Roxborough Hall – a magnificent, centuries-old mansion in the Norfolk countryside. For another, the house isn’t passed down from parent to child – but rather to the family member deemed most worthy.
Cecily Mordaunt is dead. On the evening of her funeral, her family will gather for dinner and each will be given a letter, revealing who is the next custodian of Roxborough Hall.
The house is a burden, a millstone, a full-time job . . . but they all want it. And some are willing do anything to get it.
My Review:
The Will is an entertaining, fast paced and twisty read that I really enjoyed.
Firstly I always love books involving family secrets as you never know quite what is going to be revealed. There’s always a lovely sense of being able to sit back and watch it all unravel knowing that it’s not happening to you. This book was no exception and I enjoyed getting to know the Mordaunt family with all the secrets they have hidden.
There are lots of characters in this book some who I loved and some I loved to hate. They are all introduced quite quickly which took me a little while to get used to but I liked how the author let’s the reader hear from each of their points of views. It made me feel more involved in the story and face me more of an holistic view about what is happening.
As you can probably guess what was meant to be a planned, sedate dinner turns out to be more difficult then expected. There were lots of twist and surprise revelations that kept me guessing so I couldn’t tell what was going to happen next. These mishaps helps add to the slowly increasingly tension as we get closer to discovering who will inherit the house. The ending was great and I especially liked how the author doesn’t make it overly dramatic so it seems more realistic where everything isn’t just tied up neatly in a bow. I’m very excited to read more from this author in the future.
Huge thanks for Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publishers for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Rebecca is a freelance journalist. She is a columnist for the Telegraph Women’s section and has written for Marie Claire, the Guardian, Metro.co.uk, the Saturday Telegraph, the Independent, Stylist, Glamour, the iPaper, the Guardian, Indy100, LOOK and the New Statesman amongst others. Rebecca is a regular contributor to Sky News and ITV’s This Morning as well as appearing on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, LBC, BBC News 24 and the BBC World Service to discuss her work.
She graduated from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA in 2015. She is the author of Perfect Liars, Truth Hurts, Two Wrongs and The Power of Rude.
Rebecca lives in North London with her husband.
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