Books - Standalones
Home Before Dark reviewed in The Times: “Home Before Dark is a complex, increasingly creepy tale of young love, dysfunctional families, long-buried secrets and pen pals who are not what they seem. Once again Iceland is portrayed as a strange land full of beautiful people and ugly behaviour. Its psychological depth and physical shocks recall the work of the great Ruth Rendell.”
Home Before Dark is out in the UK next week and just got this great review in The Times:
Ten years after Kristin, her older teenage sister, went missing in 1967, Marsibil Karvelsdottir returns home from Reykjavik to try to find out exactly what happened. The trouble is she has always had difficulty distinguishing dreams from reality, and her shifty father and alcoholic mother would much prefer her to let sleeping corpses lie. Even so, Marsi soon realises that “the person who had taken Stina was almost certainly someone I knew.”
Home Before Dark is a complex, increasingly creepy tale of young love, dysfunctional families, long-buried secrets and pen pals who are not what they seem. Once again Iceland is portrayed as a strange land full of beautiful people and ugly behaviour. Its psychological depth and physical shocks recall the work of the great Ruth Rendell. MS
Orenda £16.99 pp300
