The House Swap
The powerful thriller with a heartbreaking ending
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- 8,99 €
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‘I read The House Swap in one breathless sitting. Dark, smart, sexy, gripping, totally brilliant.’ Erin Kelly, author of He Said She Said
'Sinister and compelling' Woman & Home
'You'll be whipping through the pages' Stylist
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‘No one lives this way unless they want to hide something.’
When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap, they jump at the chance for a week away from home. After the difficulties of the past few years, they’ve worked hard to rebuild their marriage for their son’s sake; now they want to reconnect as a couple.
On arrival, they find a house that is stark and sinister in its emptiness – it’s hard to imagine what kind of person lives here. Then, gradually, Caroline begins to uncover some signs of life – signs of her life. The flowers in the bathroom or the music in the CD player might seem innocent to her husband but to her they are anything but. It seems the person they have swapped with is someone she used to know; someone she’s desperate to leave in her past.
But that person is now in her home – and they want to make sure she’ll never forget . . .
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‘This is very much a heart-thumping, read-in-one-sitting story, and absolutely delivers on its smart and original hook’ Heat
‘A fantastic thriller – dead-on domestic noir, full of tension and surprises. I loved it.’ Lee Child
‘An enthralling thriller that lives up to its chilling premise.’ Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer
‘Rebecca Fleet has created a perfectly contained cast of credible characters in a story so intriguing that you will be guessing right up to the last page. And it’s beautifully written too. I loved this book.’ Liz Nugent, author of Lying in Wait
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Fleet makes her U.S. debut with a consummately plotted but character-challenged domestic noir. Working mom Caroline, eager to repair her marriage after she ends an affair, hopes that a low-stress, child-free week away with husband Francis will prove therapeutic. When she accepts an online invitation to exchange their flat in center-city Leeds for a house in suburban London, it's clear from the start that Caroline has unwittingly let a malevolent presence into her home. It doesn't take long in the London-area house for her to come across subtle clues with intense personal meaning such as an open bottle of the same aftershave that her ex-lover, Carl, wore hidden behind the bedroom headboard and to suspect she has stumbled into an elaborate game staged by someone who knows her intimately. The final pages include a stunning twist, but some readers may not stick around for the fireworks, since Caroline and Francis make for difficult company she's massively narcissistic, and he's still fighting the depression and pill addiction that left him near catatonic around the time of the affair. Still, Fleet is a writer to watch.
