The Turn of the Key: the addictive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The Turn of the Key: the addictive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Turn of the Key: the addictive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Biographer Lyndall Gordon, author of Henry James: His Women and his Art, says it’s not hard to see why. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. Her son becomes a companion to an aristocrat’s son and her daughter is set to marry into a wealthy family.

The Elincourts’ housekeeper, Jean McKenzie, immediately dislikes Rowan, but it seems to run deeper than their negative first encounter. Even better is an ending that you won’t see coming and that reframes everything you’ve just heard… A lot of fun on a crisp autumn evening. Soon, she hears from the locals and other people about the many stories of death and murder in the home’s enigmatic past. The servants, wicked and depraved, corrupt and deprave the children; the children are bad, full of evil, to a sinister degree. we jumpy readers find ourselves urging, but Rowan stays put for reasons we won't understand until the final breathless twist of this thriller.I mean the book never said who did Ali the other stuff to scare Rachel such as ringing the house at mid night or playing the loud music when everyone was sleep? My belief is that Rachel did get released and eventually found out where Sandra had relocated to and at least went there to see her and her sisters.

The necklace she had that went missing was the only gift he ever sent to Rachel, which she always wore. Before the prison got demolished all of the prisoners including Rachel (if by chance she was still incarcerated) would of been relocated to other prisons. But the way they are written, and in particular how stupid and self-defeating the female characters are, make the stories real downers. The Turn of the Key is a delicious read – a sympathetic but fallible narrator is accused of a terrible crime.The majority of this story is Rowan trying to get the nanny job (100 pages), and then watching misbehaving children while smart technology around the house also misbehaves (another 170 pages). What she finds, instead, is much better: a live-in nanny at the luxurious at Heatherbrae House in the Scottish Highlands. When we finally get to the unraveling of the mystery, the twists are pretty unimaginative and straightforward. Her fifth novel, The Turn of the Key, is set in the Scottish Highlands and is as compulsively readable as you would expect a Ware book to be.

I feel Rachel wouldn’t have any use for the letters once she knew she would be exonerated so she stuffed them in the wall. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Culture, Worklife and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday.

I keep hanging on, hoping the author would mature and work out some of these story-telling tics, but it hasn't happened yet. she did feel responsible, because she was out of the house, but chances are it wouldn’t have turned out different even if she was there. Ware specializes in menacing spellbinders with narrators who may or may not be reliable… She has done a first-rate job of manufacturing and maintaining tension until the final page. Let’s just say that if you’ve got an Echo, you’re going to unplug it as soon as you finish the book… What Ware does beautifully is infuse The Turn of the Key with a creepy Gothic sensibility.

The governess has had a very sheltered upbringing and little life experience, and her new job puts an immense responsibility on her. I began to wonder if it was Sandra and Bill Elincourt whom appeared to be a bit challenging to deal with in themselves.Ruth Ware is good at writing creepy tales and this novel about a nanny moving into an apparently haunted smart house takes a gothic trope and modernizes it. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. From this raw material, James came up with a story that is presented as the written account of a now-dead unnamed narrator.



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