The crooked house
(Book)
Published in the United Kingdom in 2015, Christobel Kent's The Crooked House has drawn comparisons to works by the pantheon of British female literary suspense writers—Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, P. D. James, and Kate Atkinson. In this darkly atmospheric psychological thriller, she accomplishes what those celebrated writers do best: she creates an insular world (a single house, a small town) where something sinister has occurred, and subtly inflects each page with the toxic residue of violence.
Much like the unnamed narrator of Rebecca, Alison lives her life under the radar. She has no ties, no home, and she spends her days at a backroom publishing job. Which is how she wants it. Because Alison used to be a teenager named Esme, who lived in a dilapidated house by a bleak estuary with her parents and three siblings. One night, something unspeakable happened in the house, and Alison emerged the only survivor. In order to escape from the horror she witnessed, she moved away from her village, changed her name, and cut herself off from her past.
Only now her boyfriend invites her to a wedding in her old hometown, and she decides that if she's going to have any chance of overcoming the trauma of what happened, she'll have to confront it. But soon Alison realizes that that night's events have left a terrible mark on everyone in the village, and she begins to suspect that they are all somehow implicated in her family's murder.
Kent, C. (2016). The crooked house. First American edition. New York, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kent, Christobel. 2016. The Crooked House. New York, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kent, Christobel, The Crooked House. New York, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kent, Christobel. The Crooked House. First American edition. New York, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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