The Turn of The Key left me scared, true. And I mean switch-off-the-downstairs-lights-and-run-for-your-life-up-the-stairs kind of scared. But it also left me heartbroken. Great-big-ugly-sobs kind of heartbroken. It isn’t often that I’ll say a horror made me cry, but this one sure did.
When Rowan Caine sees a job advertisement for a private posting in Scotland with a hefty annual salary she applies immediately. The house, a gorgeous, completely remote, Victorian Scottish cottage, newly renovated with the highest tech seems too good to be true. And that’s because it is. The catch is that the family have had 4 previous nannies quit and leave the house within the last year leaving the family desperate.
Why did they leave? Well, they claim that the house is haunted.
The entire book is told as a letter written by Rowan. This letter is addressed to a lawyer because Rowan-the-perfect-nanny is sat in a prison cell on charge for the murder of a child.
What’s great about this book is that we know the ending. We know that one of the children is going to end up dead whilst under Rowan’s care. But what we don’t know is the how, the who and the why. And while we are discovering answers to these questions, there are unimaginable and completely unpredictable twists and turns; everything you’d except from a gloomy, gothic tale of ghosts and ghouls. But let me tell you, you will have absolutely no idea what is really going on.
The plot twists were so cleverly written they had me gasping out loud as if I were an extra in a cheesy soap opera. This is so much more than your typical bump-in-the-night supernatural thriller.
It completely gripped me and I want you to go and read it right now.
Oh, and there’s a Scottish hunk.
- Ellie
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