



We Live Here Now
The sensational new thriller from the number one bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES!
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THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
'Full of clever twists and surprises' HARLAN COBEN
'The summer read everyone is talking about' WOMAN & HOME
'Stunning, shocking, terrifying' CHRIS WHITAKER
'Atmospheric, immersive, surprising, a master class in twists' NEW YORK TIMES
'Sarah Pinborough is at the absolute top of her game' LISA JEWELL
'You'll be hooked on this thriller with a twist you could never predict' THE SUN
'I'm saying nothing more except you NEED to experience We Live Here Now' JANICE HALLETT
'A genuinely creepy haunted house novel' LIZ NUGENT
'This gothic chiller has its own secret that will have you gasping' HEAT
If their new home doesn't break them, their secrets will...
When Emily wakes from a coma following an accident that nearly kills her, she finds herself agreeing to move from London to the wild moors of Devon with her husband Freddie. A fresh start is exactly what their marriage needs.
As their car pulls up to Larkin Lodge, their dream country home, Emily's heart sinks. Outside, everything is covered in an icy gray mist. Inside, the air is filled with dust and abandonment.
And then she finds the empty suite on the second floor. A room so bleak, so cold, so void of anything good. Something bad happened in here. Someone dies in here. Why can't Freddie feel the darkness that stirs within its walls?
There's something wrong with the house, this strange house, where the floorboards creak at night, the doors rattle, the windows slam shut, the taps turn on and off - and on and off.
But if the house is hiding something, so are Emily and Freddie...
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Your favourite authors can't get enough of We Live Here Now:
'A chilling, darkly atmospheric thrill ride' CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN
'This is Sarah Pinborough at her mind-bending best' RUTH WARE
'Eerie, clever, and darkly funny' NICCI CLOKE
'Pacy, creepy, and devilishly plotted' SUSI HOLLIDAY
'Brilliantly chilling' JOHN MARRS
'You can imagine Edgar Allen Poe himself applauding' ALEX NORTH
'Original, spooky, and full of twists' NIKKI MACKAY
'Tantalising and laced with menace, this is magnificent thriller writing from an expert' DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pinborough's wobbly latest standalone (after Insomnia) is an atmospheric if anticlimactic gothic thriller about a couple's move to an eerie estate. Emily and Freddie Bennett have left London for the village of Dartmoor after a near-fatal fall induced a miscarriage in Emily. Following a lengthy hospitalization, she hopes for a fresh start, but her transition to their new home, Larkin Lodge, proves difficult. Apart from feeling unsettled by the surroundings ("Uneven ground and rough shrubs amid rocky outcrops"), Emily hears strange noises in the house, and an unseen presence seems to be tossing books around. Her fears that Larkin might be haunted are stoked by an interrupted session with a Ouija board, during which the planchette spells out the phrase "find it" multiple times. Both Emily and Freddie keep secrets from each other—including Emily's affair with her boss, who might have been the father of her child—and Pinborough smartly externalizes their tensions with disquieting descriptions of the odd goings-on at Larkin. Less effective is the book's final reveal, which undercuts the promising buildup. Here's hoping Pinborough returns to form next time out.