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The Silent Girls
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Imagine returning to your childhood home or a home you remember from when young, only to find it a symbol of decay and sadness. When her aunt dies, Edie returns to 17 Coronation Square.
She’s there to clear out the junk but also see what she can salvage from this place. But the house is on a street known for five vicious murders many years ago. She dreads to think what she might find under the dirt and grime of years of neglect. If only walls could talk, what secrets could they tell about what they had witnessed. Edie starts to dig and there is a lot to uncover in a house which has buried its secrets for far too long.
Travel Guide
The house on 17 Coronation Square has more than one facade. From the outside it is one of several tall Victorian houses with “postage stamp worth of green outside” and at first sight doesn’t look as if it has changed much in the past thirty years. But the opening to the novel suggests it has – it’s now on the murder trail of Edinburgh and London apparently – from Jack the Ripper to the sites where another infamous murderer may have left his mark. Well, This house and square in fictional Winfield is bound to be on his list:
“It seemed that every time a stone was turned in number 17 a new set of confusing circumstances crawled out from underneath”.
It seems that everyone in Coronation Square has a some sort of link to the murders but the trail has gone cold and someone has been trying to bury the true and blur the traces.
Would you ever feel at home in a house where murder has been committed so close by? Would you feel as if you were being watched, being hunted, being judged? Would the cold damp walls feel as if they were closing in on you?
Dare you leave the house and venture into the square? Goodness knows what this place is or who you will meet.
Booktrailer Review
Clare: @thebooktrailer
Houses and or streets where infamous murders have taken place have always held some kind of sick macabre fascination with people and this book takes that notion and turns it on its head. It takes you inside the head of Edie and the fact she has to clear out a house in such a strange street. I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck as the descriptions were so vivid and evocative that I honestly felt I was there. Turning one page, the door in my own flat creaked and I nearly had a heart attack. There is a lot in this book and to say much more will spoil the surprises and there are plenty of them.
It’s the ultimate spooky house with a strange sense of unease throughout the novel. The people who live in the immediate area are like silent floating passers by and it’s very chilling to meet them. There’s not one thing that is particularly freaky that I can put my finger on, suffice to say that it’s the whole atmosphere Ann creates through ever creak and scrap of her pen on the page.
A house on a street where 5 murders is bound to have buried secrets but this was a great way of finding them out!
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