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When her estranged stepmother dies, Caro moves back to her childhood home to clean up the nasty woman’s house and ties up loose ends before the estate is settled and closed. Main character Caro is someone you can empathise with in terms of her feeling of being an outsider and she is naturally very damaged due to incidents from her past. And the psychological part was good, a clever story of 2 sisters, reunited after many years as their step mum has died, the old house they were brought up in has been left to them along with much riches and they seem to be getting on well, the past behind them and the future, happily ahead. He thought it might be because of his sexuality, but when he came out as gay aged 18, his parents were very supportive, and the feeling did not go away. I had a hunch about how the book would end from pretty early on, but was hopeful that it wouldn't be that obvious, and that I'd be wrong, however I ended up being right about almost everything.
There were pages spent describing a small detail of the house or town, and I found myself struggling to pay attention to those sections - I wanted the story to progress, and I felt like at times it was at a complete standstill. Unfortunately I did figure out one of the major twists quite early in the story but that didn't spoil my enjoyment of this well written,debut psychological thriller and I look forward to reading more books written by this author in the future.The past is never far behind the two sisters, however, and Caroline struggles to find the truth about her own history as well as the truth about long buried family secrets. At 385 print pages the novel is on the hefty side for the limited content, with almost all of the unsettling incidents in the family home (item’s moved and unpleasant discoveries) given no viable explanation and a flabbergasting series of revelations that are difficult to swallow revealed in a mere few pages. The story of it is based on an old folktale about two little girls who are promised a reward if they behave badly, but with any story like this there are consequences. Fast forward a decade later, she got together with an author and had a daughter only to discover that her baby was swapped with someone else's. After the funeral, the estate needs to be settled and Caro needs a place to live so she goes to the house to sort through things.
TV shows and movies such as "Switched at birth" have explored this topic and it's a premise that allows for interesting stories. The motif of the pear drum and its obvious importance is likewise severely overplayed and the reader remains uninformed of its sinister significance for over seventy-five percent of the novel. I did wonder if Caro would prove to be an unreliable narrator simply because she seemed so clueless about so many things. I have had this book on my Kindle for a long time and when I finished my last book I wasn’t sure what to read next, so I randomly when through my book list and stopped on this one. he sees it as a second chance, but soon the house he shares with roommates will become the site of a brutal murder.Sophie Draper, in her début, has created such an aura of intrigue and mystery that I began to see shadows on every page.
My thanks to Sophie Draper, Avon Books UK and Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Cuckoo is a book I had been waiting to read for a long time: I'm talking since before the title was changed from The Pear Drum. This is the first novel I’ve read by Adele Parks having previously assumed that she wrote light women’s fiction I’m afraid I’d never looked beyond the covers, until I saw this, her latest contemporary fiction book. Read all Your house should be a place where we feel most comfortable, but to someone who wants to pose a threat, there's no better way to get inside your life than to get inside your home.It was one of those books where I wanted to get to the end to see how it all turned out, but at the same time, I didn’t want to finish it.
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