The House on the Lake
Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend's rambling old home in the wilds of Yorkshire seems like the perfect place. It's miles away from the closest town, and no one there knows her or her little boy, Joe.
But when a woman from the local village comes to visit them, Lisa realizes that she and Joe aren't as safe as she thought.
What secret has Rowan Isle House - and her friend - kept hidden all these years?
And what will Lisa have to do to survive, when her past finally catches up with her?
Too much of this book doesn't really ring true.
Lisa runs away with her three year old son to a remote house in Yorkshire. A house that hasn't been inhabited for at least ten years. Sorry, but if I had been brought up with all the home comforts of modern life, moving in to a cold, damp and dirty house with no water, heating or electricity wouldn't happen. Where did the wood come from to light the stove, one that hadn't been used for years.
Joe is a pretty mardy child, and while I have no experience of children this age, seems to be a very disturbed child.
The house's previous occupants had been a father and daughter, Grace. Grace was being trained as an elite soldier by her father, a Gulf war veteran. It is soon obvious that he is suffering from PTSD. In the 90s this was well known about and it defies belief that they weren't on the radar of the social services or even the police as they seemed to go around with guns. Guns need a licence and that would have been checked on.
While parts of the story were quite gripping, the rest was quite tedious and missing some of the back story.
The ending just seemed to happen in a rush as though the author just needed to finish the book.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.