My Sister's Bones
'Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read' Guardian
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
***THE NO.1 EBOOK BESTSELLER ***
'Couldn't put the lights out until I'd finished it! ' Emma Curtis, author of One Little Mistake
'Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read' Guardian
'Twists and turns until the last page' Tammy Cohen, author of When She was Bad
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If you can't trust your sister, then who can you trust?
Kate Rafter has spent her life running from her past. But when her mother dies, she's forced to return to Herne Bay - a place her sister Sally never left.
But something isn't right in the old family home. On her first night Kate is woken by terrifying screams. And then she sees a shadowy figure in the garden...
Who is crying for help?
What does it have to do with Kate's past?
And why does no one - not even her sister - believe her?
The 'shocking' 'haunting' and 'riveting' thriller about the secrets even those closest to us keep, this book will keep you turning the pages late into the night. For fans of Clare Mackintosh, C L Taylor and Erin Kelly.
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'A twisty psychological thriller. I raced through it in one sitting!' Lucy Atkins, author of The Other Child
'Wow . . . creeps slowly up your spine, grips you round the throat and doesn't let you go! ' Amazon reviewer
'My Sister's Bones is a tense, atmospheric, deliciously dark story' Amanda Jennings, author of In Her Wake
'Well-written . . . an elegant, punchy thriller with a dark heart' Observer Thriller of the Month
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Desperately hunting for the next The Girl on the Train? We have just the book. Nuala Ellwood’s hotly anticipated debut is a genuinely unsettling psychological thriller. Our narrator is unstable Syrian war reporter Kate, who returns home to live with her reclusive sister Sally after the death of their mother. Kate is convinced something awful is afoot next door, but she’s also ravaged by PTSD, so we’re left to decode her hallucinations and paranoia. What comes next—including a genuinely startling twist—is challenging, suspenseful, and darkly thrilling.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
War reporter Kate Rafter, the narrator of Ellwood's affecting debut, is more comfortable with mortar shells dropping in Aleppo and Fallujah than she is back in London, freshly returned from an assignment in Syria that has left her with nightmares and hallucinations. Kate got word of her mother's death too late to make the funeral, thanks to her alcoholic younger sister. She comes home to seaside Herne Bay in Kent to a house empty, except for memories of a miserable childhood with her alcoholic father, who beat her mother and blamed his wife for the death of Kate's brother. Chapters devoted to a long police interrogation of Kate for an unknown offense make it clear that her mental state is not what it should be. She becomes convinced she's seen a little boy in her garden, raising the question of whether Kate's losing touch with reality or something more sinister is happening. Ellwood portrays the horror of witnessing war in a compelling psychological thriller.
