The House on Rye Lane

Sublime, elegant and exciting beautifully written and entirely gripping. Im a big fan of Susan Allott CHRIS WHITAKER The lovechild of Sarah Waters The Paying Guests and Lisa Jewells The Family Upstairs confirms Susan Allott as a huge talent ERIN KELLY They thought theyd found their dream home. They were wrong. 2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work but Max couldnt resist it. Now they are in, though, nothing seems to be going right and as the problems mount up, Max starts to doubt her relationship as well as her decision. Is Seb all he seems to be? And why are the neighbours so evasive about the houses previous owner? 1994. Cookie and his parents have been forced by his dads gambling debts to move into the attic room of a big old house, as lodgers. Tensions run high between them and their elderly landlady, and theres something odd about the place that Cookie cant quite put his finger on 1843. Horatio built this house for his beloved wife, who then died in mysterious circumstances. After a second death on the premises, both his servants and the locals are starting to talk. Horatios grief is tinged with shame and guilt. What is he hiding? And will the house ever be free of his legacy? THE HOUSE ON RYE LANE is a tense, taut, beautifully crafted novel about the treachery of secrets and the many ways the past can echo into the present, from the acclaimed author of THE SILENCE.