The House of Ashes
For fans of Gillian Flynn and Tana French, a chilling story of a Northern Irish murder sixty years buried Sara Keane's husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a 'fresh start' in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless, friendless'all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible history her husband never intended for her to discover. As the two women form a bond over their shared traumas, Sara finds the strength to stand up to her abuser, and Mary'silent for six decades'is finally ready to tell her story . . . Through the counterpoint voices'one modern Englishwoman, one Northern Irish farmgirl speaking from half a century earlier'Stuart Neville offers a chilling and gorgeous portrait of violence and resilience in this truly haunting narrative.
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304 pages - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Soho Press, 2021.
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