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A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.
Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for a dry run ahead of their opening, they invite three old university friends and their families for a long-needed reunion. But the festivities soon go awry as tensions arise between the children (and subsequently their parents), explosive secrets come to light, and a sudden storm moves in, cutting them off from help as one in the group disappears.
Moving between the police investigation, a hospital room, and the catastrophic weekend, The Search Party is a propulsive and twisty destination thriller about the tenuous bonds of friendship and the lengths parents will go to protect their children—perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley.
Five old friends. One glamping weekend. A storm that will change
everything. Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race to
set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. They invite old
university friends – TV star Dominic, doctor and new mum Kira,
and free-spirited Jim and Suze – and their children for a trial
weekend but the reunion quickly veers off-course. First, there’s
The Incident around the campfire on the first night. The following
afternoon, a storm quickly develops off the rugged North Coast.
When one of their group goes missing, all hell breaks loose. And as
the winds batter the bell-tents, emotions run high and tension
mounts for all the characters. Who is lying in hospital, who has
gone missing and who is the body on the beach below the cliffs . .
.? Gripping, cleverly structured and brimming with secrets and
lies, this is a masterclass in narrative tension and a chilling
exploration of the ways in which aspiration and anxiety collide. It
will keep you guessing until the last page.Â
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The River Home (Paperback)
Hannah Richell
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The Tides are a family with many secrets. Haunted by the events of
one tragic day a decade ago, they are each, in their own way,
struggling to move forward with their lives.
There isDora, the family's youngest daughter, who lives in a
ramshackle London warehouse with her artist boyfriend. She is doing
a good job of skating across the surface of her life, but when she
discovers she is pregnant, she finds herself staring back at the
darkness of a long-held guilt. Dora's mother, Helen, is a
complicated woman whose relationship with her family has always
been turbulent, while her father Richard has cobbled together a
life that bears little resemblance to his boyhood dreams. And
Cassie, Dora's long-estranged sister, has cut off her family
entirely, it seems.
When Dora arrives at Clifftops, her family's rambling home on the
Dorset coast, it seems that Helen might finally be ready to make
amends for her own part in the tragedy. But what Dora soon
discovers is that the path to redemption does not rest solely with
her mother. Can family crimes this damaging ever really be
forgiven?
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The River Home (Paperback)
Hannah Richell
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'Heart-rending' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Utterly gripping' VERONICA HENRY
'Beautiful and gripping' LIBBY PAGE 'There's something I need to
tell you.' Eight years ago, Margot Sorrell left the crumbling
family home in the Somerset countryside under a dark cloud, hoping
never to return. And until she tells her two sisters why she ran
away, they refuse to forgive her... But with her sisters' perfect
lives starting to unravel, Margot knows she must go back. The river
by her home has kept her secret all this time - as well as the
memories of the terrible night that tore her family apart. As the
past threatens to surface, will the truth destroy the Sorrell
family - or bring them back together? Don't miss this heartrending
and utterly gripping book club read from Richard & Judy
recommended author Hannah Richell! *** More praise for THE RIVER
HOME: 'An unforgettable read' Bella 'Beautifully written and a real
tearjerker' Woman's Way
A compelling story of hidden secrets and forbidden love, from the
bestselling author of The Secrets of the Tides 'If she could reach
back through the years and warn the person she once was, what would
she say? ... What would she say to the ghosts who now inhabit her
days? So many of those she has loved are now nothing but dust and
memory.' At twenty-six, Lillian feels trapped by life. Her marriage
to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she expected it would.
To her it seems she is just another object captured within the
walls of Cloudesley, her husband's beautiful manor house tucked
away high in the Chiltern Hills. But, with a young step-son and a
sister to care for, Lillian accepts there is no way out for her.
Then Charles makes an arrangement with an enigmatic artist visiting
their home and his presence will unbalance everything she thought
she knew and understood. Maggie Oberon ran from the hurt and
resentment she caused. Half a world away, in Australia, it was
easier to forget, to pretend she didn't care. But when her elderly
grandmother, Lillian, falls ill she must head back to Cloudesley.
Forced to face her past, Maggie fights to hold herself and her
family's legacy together as she learns that all she thought was
real, all that she held so close, was never as it seemed. Two
summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined.
And a house that holds the dark secrets that could free them both.
A compelling story of hidden secrets and forbidden love, from the
bestselling author of The Secrets of the Tides 'If she could reach
back through the years and warn the person she once was, what would
she say? ... What would she say to the ghosts who now inhabit her
days? So many of those she has loved are now nothing but dust and
memory.' At twenty-six, Lillian feels trapped by life. Her marriage
to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she expected it would.
To her it seems she is just another object captured within the
walls of Cloudesley, her husband's beautiful manor house tucked
away high in the Chiltern Hills. But, with a young step-son and a
sister to care for, Lillian accepts there is no way out for her.
Then Charles makes an arrangement with an enigmatic artist visiting
their home and his presence will unbalance everything she thought
she knew and understood. Maggie Oberon ran from the hurt and
resentment she caused. Half a world away, in Australia, it was
easier to forget, to pretend she didn't care. But when her elderly
grandmother, Lillian, falls ill she must head back to Cloudesley.
Forced to face her past, Maggie fights to hold herself and her
family's legacy together as she learns that all she thought was
real, all that she held so close, was never as it seemed. Two
summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined.
And a house that holds the dark secrets that could free them both.
Every family has a secret: a dramatic family saga with a dark
thread of suspense lurking at its heart. The Tides are a family
with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten
years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move
forwards with their lives. Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in a
ramshackle East End warehouse with her artist boyfriend Dan. Dora
is doing a good job of skating across the surface of her life - but
when she discovers she is pregnant the news leaves her shaken and
staring back at the darkness of a long-held guilt. Returning to
Clifftops, the rambling family house perched high on the Dorset
coastline, Dora must confront her past. Clifftops hasn't changed in
years and moving through its rooms and gardens, Dora can still feel
the echo of that terrible summer's day when life changed forever
for the Tides. As Dora begins her search for clues surrounding the
events of that fateful day, she comes to realise that the path to
redemption may rest with her troubled sister, Cassie. If Dora can
unlock the secrets Cassie swore she would take to her grave, just
maybe she will have a shot at salvation. But can long-held secrets
ever really be forgiven? And even if you do manage to forgive and
forget, how do you ever allow yourself to truly love again?
A spellbinding tale of grief, jealousy and betrayal, from the
author of the Richard & Judy Book Club selected SECRETS OF THE
TIDES. 1980. On a hot summer's day five friends stumble upon an
abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated
and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from
the world. But as the seasons change, tensions begin to rise...
Three decades later, Lila arrives at the remote cottage. Bruised
from a tragic accident and with her marriage in crisis, she finds
renovating the tumbledown house gives her a renewed sense of
purpose. But why did the cottage's previous inhabitants leave their
belongings behind? And why can't she shake the feeling that someone
is watching her?
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The Shadow Year (Paperback)
Hannah Richell
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R609
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Still grieving the death of her prematurely delivered infant, Lila
finds a welcome distraction in renovating a country house she's
recently inherited. Surrounded by blueprints and plaster dust,
though, she finds herself drawn into the story of a group of
idealistic university grads from thirty years before, who'd thrown
off the shackles of bourgeois city life to claim the cottage and
rely only on each other on the land. But utopia-building can be
fraught with unexpected peril, and when the fate of the group is
left eerily unclear, Lila turns her attention to untangling a web
of secrets to uncover the shocking truth of what happened that
fateful year, in order to come to terms with her own loss and build
a new future for herself.
Suspenseful and moving, with a deep secret at its heart, THE SHADOW
YEAR is Hannah Richell's breakout book.
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