The Turn of the Key: the addictive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The cast of characters includes an unsuspecting nanny, a creepy housekeeper, and a hunky groundskeeper amid the mists and heather, crumbling stone walls and creaky attics. What more could you ask for?” Rowan applies for the nanny position with Sandra and Bill Elincourt, and their 4 daughters ranging from 18 months to 14 years old. The family live in a remote part of Scotland in a house that jolts between new and old. The Victorian architecture of the building clashes abruptly with the high-tech sensor and communication technology that controls features throughout the house. Door access, lighting, heating, curtains, music and room-to-room communications all offer an opportunity to mix faulty operation, malicious intent and/or paranormal interference. Before Rowan has even taken up the position, young Maddie warns her not to come as the “Ghosts wouldn’t like it.”

The house is a character in the book as it plays a major role. Heatherbrae is a “smart” house, filled with surveillance equipment and the ability to turn on and off anything electrical by command, using an app named “Happy.” There are a few incidents where it seems to malfunction but such things do happen, right? The Turn of the Key serves as a warning to advancing the capabilities of a smart house because it shows the reader how things can go very wrong. “Better to achieve perfect marks on an easy test than flunk a hard one, that was my motto.” No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm! Rowan has a very negative first impression of Bill Elincourt and their relationship only gets worse from there. Why is her initial reaction so strong? How would you handle the ensuing harassment by an employer? From this raw material, James came up with a story that is presented as the written account of a now-dead unnamed narrator. She is engaged to be governess to two angelic orphans, 10-year-old Miles, currently at boarding school, and eight-year-old Flora, by their uncle at Bly, a remote manor house in the south of England. Miles is expelled from school for some unknown transgression. The young governess soon realises that the seemingly innocent children are communing with two ghosts, whom she sees around the house and its grounds. The ghosts are those of her predecessor Miss Jessel and Jessel’s lover, the malevolent Peter Quint, a valet. There are heavy hints that the pair had a profoundly inappropriate relationship with the children – sexual abuse is one interpretation. Our increasingly agitated narrator attempts to protect them from the spirits but tragedy ensues. The governess’s account is introduced in a preface as being told to a group of friends at a country-house party by the man to whom she had entrusted her manuscript years earlier.Most of the Ruth Ware novels have been either nominated for or won one or more awards. They have been sold in numerous countries, including the US, Thailand, Estonia, Germany, and have been translated in several languages. The next morning, Maddie refuses to get dressed. When she brushes her teeth, she spits into Rowan's face. Rowan nearly hits Maddie. We finally learn who Rachel Gerhardt is and of her personal connection to the family. Were there any clues that led you to suspect this before the big reveal? Do you believe Rachel’s version of events as she explains them to Mr. Wrexham? Alinor Reekie is a midwife and herbalist, scratching a living for herself and her two children. Her abusive fisherman husband disappeared months earlier. Donald sustains the tension beautifully over the course of this long book, depicting his smoggy setting so well that your eyes sting while your pulse races.

With a churning plot worthy of Agatha Christie, and fresh on the heels of her bestselling thriller In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware twists the wire on readers’ nerves once again. “Cabin 10” just may do to cruise vacations what “Jaws” did to ocean swimming. You’ll be afraid to go out on the water. (Star Tribune) Rowan Caine stumbles on an ad to hire a nanny for the four children that live in Heatherbrae House. The salary for the live in, full time position, is unbelievably generous and Rowan is more than ready to leave her job at a daycare center. Feeling the need to make sure she gets the job, Rowan's resume is less than truthful although she does have the basic requirements for the job. Once Rowan sees the house in person, she is determined to be sure she is the perfect fit for the family and the position. She gets the job and has to begin within a short time, arriving at the house the day before the parents leave for a week or two of work away from home. For Samsung Print products, enter the M/C or Model Code found on the product label. - Examples: “SL-M2020W/XAA”Ruth Ware was born in 1977 in West Sussex, UK. She grew up in Lewes, Sussex, on the south coast of England. She went to Manchester University, following which he moved to Paris. There is an old house located in a remote area in the middle of nowhere in the Scottish Highlands. Rowan becomes a nanny for a family of three children in this creepy estate. The house has a haunted past. Other nannies left and the family has a hard time keeping nannies. The house has everything that you can imagine and Rowan is getting paid very well. It is a smart house with different technology and it has creepy noises in the night. Dark and disturbing events happen in this house. The parents leave Rowan alone with their children in this estate. What Rowan doesn't know is that she is stepping into a nightmare. There are cameras installed in the house and she is having a difficult time and she knows that she has made some mistakes. If you say: “I’m in!”, I recommend you to consume it with lighter foods( greasy popcorn is not a good option especially at the parts of the book you’re introduced porcelain version of Annabelle baby’s head who could cut some parts of your body and make you bleed!) non-alcoholic beverages(You need clear mind to concentrate and enjoy the story.)