The crooked house - Christobel Kent

One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison's story.

Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree Yard, this stunning psychological thriller from the author of The Loving Husband follows one woman's search for the truth about her family history.

Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties and a
backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was
someone else: once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top
of a remote house on a bleak estuary.
A girl whose family, if not
happy, exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought.


Then one night violence was unleashed in the crooked house,
in a nightmare that only Alison survived and from which she's been
running ever since. Only when she falls for the charismatic Paul does
Alison realise that to have any chance of happiness, she must return to
her old life and face a closed community full of dark secrets.

As
she seeks to uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night,
Alison begins to question everything she thought she knew. Is there anyone she can trust?