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One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave. As Sonia's desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the outside world becomes all the more overpowering, she is haunt...more

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Published January 1st 2012 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2011)

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May 25, 2012 Lou rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arc, mystery-thriller

A woman who is struggling to go forward in life due to events of the past haunting her consciousness and those memories are also vague and will slowly become a realization.
She starts a fixation and obsession with one man a teenager, with an objective to rekindle a long gone love and very soon her actions will come to fruition sooner than expected. The story takes you through her behavior and thoughts and bonds you with the questions what will she do next? That expectation on the forthcoming moti...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Kelly rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I did not put this book down - I threw it across the room. Probably a poor choice as I was using an e-reader, but since I couldn't punch every character in this train wreck, throwing the book was an acceptable alternative.

Basically, a nutjob of a woman keeps a teenage boy trapped in her house because he reminds her of her dead brother. Unfortunately, the boy is not overly bright, and can't seem to make the connection that every time Crazypants gives him anything to eat or drink, he passes out a...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Daffy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow, this is a terrific read. A psychological thriller, the narrative slowly and gently unfolds. The writing is precise and assured and I felt in good hands, even though the subject matter, a middle aged woman who abducts a teenage boy, is something that would usually make me feel uncomfortable. Sonia, the abductor, though clearly disturbed by events in her past, is sympathetically portrayed, and all the characters are believable. The denouement made me to gasp and I didn't see it coming at all,...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Daniel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sonia lets Jez in to her home, and then never lets him leave. 'Tideline' charts what happens from the point at which Sonia opens the door, primarily from her perspective, and it is here I have what became my biggest qualm; every now and then the gaze changes and we see what is going on outside the cenral story from another character's point of view. I found nothing about these parts to be worthy of a change of narrator, and given the idea of the plot I am actually surprised Hancock made the choi...more

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May 26, 2012 Jenny Benn rated it 3 of 5 stars

A mildly disturbing psychological drama about a woman who becomes obsessed with a teenage boy in an unconscious effort to resolve a dysfunctional past relationship. The book begins with the boy arriving at her house to borrow a music CD from her husband. She invites him in, gets him drunk and keeps him captive in the house. The narrative revolves around her warped emotions and troubled memories. Meanwhile the boy's relatives are trying to find him and a police search is underway.

It was an inter...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Will L rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Psychological thriller fans

Recommended to Will by: Calgary Public Library

Kept in the Dark by Penny Hancock – A satisfactory read

As my eyes feasted on this piece of fiction, I discovered that it was more focused on promoting writing creatively as opposed to writing for the sole purpose of recounting the chain of events. As I flipped each page, I understood better and better the lost dreams, the feeling of hopelessness, and the desperation of each character as they try to find happiness. The sentiment of loss is one that everyone can relate to. However, everyone dive...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Luanne Ollivier rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

3.5/5

Kept in the Dark is British author Penny Hancock's debut novel.

Forty something Sonia lives in a beautiful home on the Thames River in England. She is being pressured by her family to sell the house now that her children are grown, but she is quite resistant to this idea. Their constant pressure seems to have widened a crack in Sonia's psyche.

Fifteen year old Jez comes to the door of River House to take up an offer from Sonia's husband to borrow some music. He's not home, but Sonia invites...more 3.5/5

Kept in the Dark is British author Penny Hancock's debut novel.

Forty something Sonia lives in a beautiful home on the Thames River in England. She is being pressured by her family to sell the house now that her children are grown, but she is quite resistant to this idea. Their constant pressure seems to have widened a crack in Sonia's psyche.

Fifteen year old Jez comes to the door of River House to take up an offer from Sonia's husband to borrow some music. He's not home, but Sonia invites him in anyway......and decides that he won't be leaving. He is a beautiful boy and she decides she will be the one to protect him and keep him safe. So she drugs him and locks him in the music room.....

All of this happens within the first few chapters of the book. So, we know the crime early on. The question is will Jez escape? And why is Sonia doing this? We get little glimpses into her past as the book progresses, revealing more and more of a relationship that was distinctly unhealthy.

What drove this book for me was Sonia's rationalizations and thought processes. Hancock has written wonderful dialogue for Sonia. She is able to completely twist the situation around in her mind - she is truly only doing her best to help this poor boy - completely obliterating the fact that she is the one putting him in danger. She can't understand why Jez is not more grateful. The crime Sonia has committed is horrifying, but is Sonia herself who is gave me that creepy, unsettled feeling in my stomach as I read. There is a twist at the end, that I did suspect was coming a few chapters before.

Hancock employs a first person narration style for Kept in the Dark. It's unusual as the entire book is told from the criminal's point of view and we never really get to know the victim at all. We know Jez wants to escape, but only from what Sonia tells us. Readers looking for an action packed book won't find it here. Instead the book moves at a slower pace as Hancock deliberately and deliciously builds the story bit by bit.

Hancock has penned an interesting debut. I would pick up another book by this author - her next is scheduled for the first half of 2013.(less)

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Jan 21, 2013 Helen Daly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Story: One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave. As Sonia's desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the outside world becomes all the more overpowering, she is haunted by memories of an intense teenage relationship, which gradually reveal a terrifying truth. The River House, Sonia's...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Lee Razer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-fiction, contemporary-fiction

File under "London Gothic" and "Psychological Thriller". And perhaps also "Lolita Variations". Sonia is a fortysomething married professional in London living in the River House, a large house on the Thames. Her daughter is away at college, and her husband spends most of his time traveling, leaving her alone. One afternoon the 15 year old nephew of Sonia's good friend Helen comes by asking to borrow a hard-to-find album her husband owns. Sonia invites Jez in, and his presence quickly enflames pa...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Jordan E. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a tricky book for me. It proved to me what I've started to feel as a reader/writer both, that I like a book to take a little time to draw me in, that I am not actually a fan of the insta-hook--where the inciting incident happens on the first page. In this book, the action happens so fast that I don't have time to decide how I feel. I'm sure she does it on purpose but it worked against the book, I felt. On the level of craft, it succeeded in keeping me reading because I had to know what...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Keira rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book „Kept in the Dark“, written by Penny Hancock is about a middle aged woman, who abducts a teenager boy, because he reminds her of someone in her past. It was published in the year 2012 under the title „Tideline“ and I read it in german where it came out in 2013. It is translated by Eva Kemper.

Sonia lives in a house near the Thames river. One day Jez, the nephew of a friend visits her and she let him stay for dinner. While the hours move, she notice that she feel peace, when he is near he...more The book „Kept in the Dark“, written by Penny Hancock is about a middle aged woman, who abducts a teenager boy, because he reminds her of someone in her past. It was published in the year 2012 under the title „Tideline“ and I read it in german where it came out in 2013. It is translated by Eva Kemper.

Sonia lives in a house near the Thames river. One day Jez, the nephew of a friend visits her and she let him stay for dinner. While the hours move, she notice that she feel peace, when he is near her. A obsession breaks free. She abducts him and while she thinks she could let him go every time she wants, she didn't think of the consequences. Soon she find it impossible to let him free and is determined to keep him where he is – in her custody.

The book catched my Interest, because it tout with S. J. Watson, who read this book and find it thrilling and I read a book from S. J. Watson just before „Kept in the Dark“.
I find it is well written. It is written in the point-of-view of Helen, the aunt of Jez and Sonia, the woman who abducted the teenager boy. Whenever a situation appears that would normally disturb the reader, the point of view from Sonia shows that she find it totally normal and so give you the feeling that what she do isn't that bad as you would normally think. To the contrary Helen brings you back to the reality that it is indeed not normal to just abduct someone and hold them captive.
Jez, the abducted teenager boy, is in my opinion a little to calm. I don't know how I would react if I realize that the woman who I trusted don't plan to let me go, but I would not just lie there and let her do with me whatever she wants – especially not a plaster cast from myself. (Hope plaster cast is the right word for it).

I like the book, because, as I said you see how normal Sonia find the whole thing and you almost wonder over yourself when you read about the situation and don't find it as terrifying as you would when you hear the story from someone else. But in my opinion Jez didn't fight back enough.

I give the book 4/5 stars. ;)
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Sep 23, 2012 Shay (Shannon) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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When fifteen year old Jez goes missing family relationships that were already crumbling reach their limits obscuring realities about the disappearance. The family’s neighbor and friend Sonia, who can’t let go of her past lost love, is looking to fill an emptiness that has deepened since her daughter has gone off to college. Jez could be the answer to Sonia’s problem and her way to never have to let go of all that she has lost and al...more

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Feb 04, 2012 Daren Kearl rated it 4 of 5 stars

A gripping read. Keeps you turning the pages wanting to know what's going to happen next. The first person narrative of a mother who kidnaps a teenage boy due to early psychological trauma which gradually gets revealed, works really well and for the most part makes you feel tugged between sympathy and "mad bitch". The final reveal towards the end was a surprise I didn't see coming.

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Oct 10, 2012 Mike Van Barneveld rated it 3 of 5 stars

Eigenlijk 2,5 ster. Zou goed vond ik het boek ook weer niet en eigenlijk heel lang niet erg spannend en onwerkelijk. Het laatste stuk (ongeveer 50 pagina's voor het einde) wordt het toch nog wel even iets spannender en heeft het einde toch iets aparts. Daarom toch 3 in plaats van 2 sterren. Ik vind het alleen zeker geen aanrader helaas.

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Jul 15, 2012 Melanie Macleod rated it 4 of 5 stars

Quite good and intense, could feel myself reading quicker. Def good read if you like suspense thrillers. She does a really good job of having you feel for all the characters. Everyone is flawed. And that feeling of youth and missing being young. Really good read. Qam you will really like this one I think. x

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Mar 26, 2013 Susan rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Sep 03, 2012 Melanie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At times effectively disturbing, other times it just drags and seems implausible in a way that interferes with one's ability to get lost in the story. Unfortunately none of the main characters or their lives are particularly interesting, and so the time spent on them feels wasted, and then main point of the novel seems to be how Sonia will manage to keep Jez and avoid discovery. The fact that she manages to do so for a little over an entire week is a bit of a stretch. There is a shocking reveal...more

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Apr 24, 2013 Françoise rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sonia, la quarantaine, vit dans une maison sur les bords de la Tamise, dans la banlieue de Londres, Greenwich, non loin de l’Ile aux Chiens. Nostalgique, elle ne peut se résoudre à quitter « Les Berges » malgré la pression mise par sa famille. Son mari, qui est constamment en déplacement, sa fille qui est partie à l’université et sa mère placée en maison de retraite, tentent de la persuader de vendre. Mais rien n’y fait. Sonia est attachée à cette maison, à la Tamise et surtout à son adolescence...more Sonia, la quarantaine, vit dans une maison sur les bords de la Tamise, dans la banlieue de Londres, Greenwich, non loin de l’Ile aux Chiens. Nostalgique, elle ne peut se résoudre à quitter « Les Berges » malgré la pression mise par sa famille. Son mari, qui est constamment en déplacement, sa fille qui est partie à l’université et sa mère placée en maison de retraite, tentent de la persuader de vendre. Mais rien n’y fait. Sonia est attachée à cette maison, à la Tamise et surtout à son adolescence passée dans cet environnement. Cette adolescence qui lui a fait vivre des sentiments forts et profonds qu’elle pense ne jamais retrouver.
Lorsque Jez, 15 ans, le fils de son amie Helen, vient lui rendre visite afin d’emprunter un CD de Tim Buckley appartenant à son mari, Sonia développe une obsession pour cet adolescent, pour sa jeunesse. Obsession telle, qu’elle décide de ne plus le laisser partir, de le séquestrer dans le studio de musique installé à l’étage.
Premier roman de Penny Hancock, Désordre, nous prend à la gorge, nous séquestre, nous envoûte. Non pas que le récit soit violent, cauchemardesque, ou oppressant loin de là. L’auteure se donne le temps de développer la personnalité psychologique des principaux intervenants. L’utilisation du « Je » narratif renforce le personnage de Sonia. Nous fait vivre ses angoisses, ses souvenirs, ses sentiments au plus profond de son âme. Il la rend plus humaine. Ce « Je » nous prive aussi du point de vue de Jez, ce jeune de 15 ans, qui malgré lui se retrouve emprisonné dans cette maison. Mais cela ne nuit pas au récit, que du contraire.
Un récit construit étape par étape, couche après couche, avec patience et détermination pour nous amener à un épilogue qui nous retourne, nous explose au visage.
Comme vous l’aurez compris, j’ai beaucoup aimé ce roman. Ce développement progressif, tout en subtilité, ces flashbacks, ces détails nous permettant de nous mettre dans la peau du personnage, cette fin inattendue, tout est fait pour que ce roman soit addictif.
J’ai beaucoup aimé aussi ce rapport au fleuve. Ces descriptions détaillées de ce fleuve qui fait partie intégrante de Londres. Ce fleuve sinueux si dangereux pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas. La Tamise fait partie intégrante du roman, tel un personnage à part entière qui participe au développement du récit.
Voici donc un essai réussi avec brio par Penny Hancock. Une très belle découverte. J’attends avec impatience son prochain roman qui je l’espère nous captivera tout autant sinon plus.
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Feb 18, 2013 Anthony Burt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This debut novel made me feel sick, disturbed, scared and genuinely tense - it was fantastic! It was, quite simply, the most worryingly real yet infinitely disgusting experience reading this abduction story. A woman in the classy Canary Wharf London "set" has been long pyschologically damaged by an abusive relationship in her teens and she heads back to those days by kidnapping her best friend's boy. Even though this was, at times, way too posh-posh silver-spoon-fed "London" for my liking, it wa...more

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Mar 16, 2012 Zuzu Burford rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A great read.I would finish a chapter and wonder where is this story going. My imagination was working overtime thinking of different frightening scenarios. To write more would be giving away a well plotted story. Woth 4.5, Enjoy!

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Jan 29, 2013 Sheila rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2013

3.5 stars. Another great British suspense novel. What I liked most about this book:

* The Thames takes on a life of its own, becoming another character in the book. The descriptions of the river are amazing.
* A sympathetic villain. She's obviously insane, and obviously sees things warped, not as they actually are, but I still understood her. (I especially love how she twists her captive's feelings into what she thinks they should be.)
* The gender reversal.
* A great twist at the end. (I should ha...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was phenomenal. From the very beginning, it had you guessing what was going to happen next only to find that it was the exact opposite. Sonia's obsession with Jez was alarming at first, but as her past is slowly revealed you discover that she's been emotionally abused by everyone in her life for as long as she can remember. Memories of her brother haunt her and control her even in adulthood, which leads to drastic decisions that later cause more trouble than she could ever imagine. As...more

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Oct 10, 2012 Laura rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: drama, mystery, suspense

I checked this book as "Its ok". I really wanted to like it, but I just could not get in to it. I finished it in the hopes that something big would happen. The description compared it to Gone Girl but I don't see anything similar there at all. No great plot twists. Remotely unlikeable characters and two person point of view is about all they have in common. The story follows a woman who is obviously sick in the head, basically kidnaps a boy because she quickly becomes obsessed with him and he re...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Beadyjan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: psychological-chillers

This gripping and unsettling psychological chiller builds gradually into a descent into the disturbing insanity of a criminal who thinks they're doing no wrong.

Sonia lives in the River house and has done since her troubled childhood. When budding young musician Jez, nephew of her friend Helen, visits to borrow a music album, memories of a lost love haunt her as similarities between the youngster and Seb with whom she spent much of her childhood begin to overwhelm Sonia. When she allows her obses...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Kylie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A friend lend me this book after she received it as a Goodreads Giveaway. After reading half of it I was very tempted to stop. I very much disliked the book - I disliked the concept. I disliked the central character. There was something about Sonia that just made my skin crawl.

My friend encouraged me to read on and found that I finished it very quickly, as I want to read what happened to Jez.

I still very much dislike this book - I found the ideas uncomfortable, it in places was just plain horrib...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Meera rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was incredibly dark and chilling. Sonia, a wealthy and beautiful middle aged woman is visited by a teenage nephew of a friend, and then decides to keep him at her house, as his visit triggers memories of a young boy in her past. The writing is very tense and atmospheric, and evokes the mystery and darkness of the Thames, as Sonia's behaviour spirals increasingly out of control, you fear for what she might do. I had some difficulties with really buying into the character of Sonia, as if...more

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Oct 21, 2012 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, thriller

Super creepy book about a middle aged wife and mother (Sonia) who basically takes a teen neighbor kid hostage in her big, rambling house overlooking the Thames. This is very well-written and I was drawn in immediately. The book does kind of lag in the middle but by the end the author really ups the ickiness factor. Very well done but what kept it from more stars is the fact it’s told from Sonia’s viewpoint. This works on some level but it’s hard to love a book when you hate the protagonist. I gu...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Andd Becker rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book's organization features present tense/1st person narrative alternating with past tense/3rd person narrative.
The 1st person narrator is a deranged woman who drugs a teenager and locks him up. Haunted by flashbacks, she seems, at times, to have lost the distinction between past and present. She is someone whose psyche the reader may not want to explore.
The author/3rd person narrator unfolds events in the life of another woman.
Switching back and forth like this dampens the cumulative...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Kerstin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Kurzbeschreibung:
Sonia liebt das alte Haus an der Themse, in dem sie schon ihre Kindheit verbracht hat und in dem sie jetzt mit ihrem Mann Greg lebt. Doch eines Tages geschieht etwas, das ihren geordneten Alltag in den Grundfesten erschüttert – denn es steht ein junger Mann vor ihrer Tür, der sich eine seltene Schallplatte von Greg ausleihen möchte. Vom ersten Moment an übt Jez eine verstörende Wirkung auf Sonia aus, und sie spürt, dass sie von einem dunklen Sog erfasst wird, der stärker ist als...more Kurzbeschreibung:
Sonia liebt das alte Haus an der Themse, in dem sie schon ihre Kindheit verbracht hat und in dem sie jetzt mit ihrem Mann Greg lebt. Doch eines Tages geschieht etwas, das ihren geordneten Alltag in den Grundfesten erschüttert – denn es steht ein junger Mann vor ihrer Tür, der sich eine seltene Schallplatte von Greg ausleihen möchte. Vom ersten Moment an übt Jez eine verstörende Wirkung auf Sonia aus, und sie spürt, dass sie von einem dunklen Sog erfasst wird, der stärker ist als sie selbst. Noch kann sie nicht ahnen, dass sich ihr Leben von diesem Moment an unaufhaltsam auf einen Abgrund zubewegt. Denn Jez rührt an die tiefsten Obsessionen ihrer Seele – und Sonia ist bereit, zum Äußersten zu gehen, damit sie endlich ihren Frieden findet...

Meine Meinung kurz & knapp:
Ich beschütze dich ist ein Psychothriller, der zwar auch einen Mord beinhaltet, aber ohne blutige Szenen auskommt. Penny Hancock legt ihr Hauptaugenmerk vielmehr auf die Seele ihrer Protagonistin Sonia, die sehr einsam ist und den 15-jährigen Jez, den Neffen ihrer Freundin Helen, der sich bei ihr eine Schallplatte ausborgen will, gefangen nimmt.

Jez erinnert Sonia an ihre erste große Liebe Seb, zu dem ihre Gedanken immer wieder zurückdriften und somit schildert Penny Hancock auch immer wieder eingestreut die Erlebnisse der beiden in der Vergangenheit. Immer tiefer verstrickt sich Sonia in Ausreden und Ausflüchte, nicht nur ihrem Mann gegenüber, sondern auch Jez' Familie. Mit immer raffinierteren Tricks bindet sie Jez an sich und schreckt auch nicht davor zurück, ihn unter Drogen zu setzen.

Doch Jez' Familie lässt nicht locker und somit steuert alles auf ein bitteres Ende zu, nicht nur in der Gegenwart sondern auch in Sonias und Sebs Vergangenheit. Mich konnte Penny Hancock mit ihrem Roman fesseln, zumal sie auch die Gegend, in der Sonia wohnt, es handelt sich hierbei um ein Flusshaus direkt an der Themse, so bildhaft, detailliert und aus Sonias Sicht mit soviel Hingabe und Liebe zum Wasser, an dem sie immer gelebt hat, schildert.

Ebenso lernt der Leser auch die Geschichte aus Helens Sicht kennen, die sich als Jez' Tante, bei der er zu Besuch war, um sich für mehrere Colleges zu bewerben, sehr viele Vorwürfe zu seinem Verschwinden macht. Man kann gar nicht anders, als immer weiterzulesen, denn es ist spannend, zu erfahren, wie es Sonia und Jez am Ende ergehen wird und was aus ihrer Jugendliebe Seb wurde, wobei hier noch eine unerwartete Wendung stattfand.

Ich fühlte mich sehr gut unterhalten von diesem doch eher ruhigen Psychothriller, in dem die Protagonistin schon eher bemitleidenswert als abstoßend wirkt.(less)

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Nov 03, 2012 Annabee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: leesclub

Wie afgaat op zogenoemde quotes op boekcovers komt bij ‘Het huis aan de rivier’ bedrogen uit: het is bij lange na niet zo spannend en angstaanjagend als de vermeldingen de aspirant-lezer willen doen geloven. Daarbij komt, dat er te veel wordt verteld in de boekbeschrijving op de achterflap, waardoor het beetje spanning dat het verhaal bevat tenietgedaan wordt. Een misser en een dikke minpunt, die ik niet onbenoemd wil laten.

Het verhaal over Sonia, vrouw van middelbare leeftijd, die de vijftienj...more

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