Monday, February 15, 2016

The Crooked House by Christobel Kent FIC Ken


When Esme was a teenager she lived with her parents and three siblings in a remote house.  One night in this 'crooked house' something awful and unthinkable happened.  Esme was the only one to survive.  Thirteen years later Esme is now called Alison and she lives in London.  She still has nightmares but life is going fairly well.  She has a boyfriend named Paul.  After four years of keeping men emotionally distant she has begun to be able to have a real relationship - except that he doesn't know her real name or her past story.

One day she finds out that Paul has been asked to be the best man (at the last minute when the original guy was unable to come) at the wedding of an ex-girlfriend.  He wants Alison to come with him of course.  In fact he has made reservations so that they can enjoy a long weekend.  Panic sets in when she realizes that the wedding is in the town of her childhood.  This isn't going to be easy to pull off!

I loved this book.  Throughout the novel you slowly get more details about what happened that night and what happened to Esme after she left the town.  Once I started I couldn't put it down!

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