Behind Closed Doors: The gripping, shocking, million-copy and international bestselling psychological thriller from the author of The Dilemma

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Jack is a truly twisted character but so, so clever that I began to despair that Grace would ever escape her situation. But on the couple’s wedding day Millie suffered from a terrible slip and fall down the stairs breaking her leg and removing her from the wedding festivities entirely (*dun dun dunnnnnnnnn*). Reading this book will give directors a better understanding of the issues that arise inside the boardroom. This novel moves at a breathless pace … Miriam Halahmy successfully uses a light touch with this dark material.

Indeed, as someone who imagined they knew the scholarship on interiors, I learned something on almost every page; and it’s also not a small thing to say that unlike almost all the other published books on interiors available, I got the strongest possible sense that Vickery had lived in an interior, and understood how interiors work on a day to day level.He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. In its scope, originality and potential impact, I can only compare it to Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957): it deserves the widest possible readership. Behind Closed Doors is both unsettling and addictive, as I raced through the pages to find out Grace's fate. At first, as I looked down at her little body lying on the floor, I thought the drugs he had given me had been playing with my mind, because I was still feeling woozy.

But that didn’t prevent me from appreciating the book — and, I would dare say, even enjoying the depth of emotions it made me feel. if he were more dispassionate in his predilections, maybe, but that kind of showmanship, and the way he toys with grace is so risky - she could have had a breakdown at any moment when he was parading her in front of dinner guests and blurted something out or showed a crack in her own perfection that would invite suspicion and scrutiny.As the old saying goes, nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors and my goodness nobody would guess what was going on in Jack and Grace Angel’s home. Catherine Alliott is the author of fifteen bestselling novels including About Last Night, My Husband Next Door, A Rural Affair, One Day in May, The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton, and Wish You Were Here. This phenomenal story about mental abuse taken to the extreme was so expertly plotted and drawn out that I was stunned to learn later that this was the author’s debut novel. psychological suspense novels like Gone Girl are characterized by the destabilizing effect they have on their reader; where tension is built and maintained through misdirection and the manipulation of narrative twists, keeping the reader guessing, uncertain about what's actually going on, where the story is headed, if the narrator can be trusted. She was brought up in England and moved to France where she spent some years working as a trader in an international bank before re-training as a teacher and setting up a language school with her husband.

A truly chilling story of a husband and wife that is seemingly perfect in all respects – except for what happens behind closed doors. Can I just say… I have read so many psychological thriller/horror books and not many of them have terrified me as much as this book. I would have liked to know more about some aspects in these characters’ lives and also the story to be longer.Here we see how Grace met Jack; we see the early days of their relationship and how things ended up the way they are in the present — a living nightmare. Behind Closed Doors] reveals in a fundamentally novel way how the language of taste actually functioned for those outside of the well-known literary and philosophical elite in this period. Vickery] opens resolutely shut doors and peeps into the private lives of servants, aristocrats and the “polite and middling sorts” – merchants, clergy members, doctors and lawyers…Ms. Esther picks Grace up at the airport, and to Grace’s surprise, helps her come up with a plausible cover story for the murder. They didn’t want Millie, a surprise late baby, who they fear might inconvenience them, and their plans to retire to New Zealand.

Several of my friends have loved this one but I think I had it built up in my mind to being awesome and for me it sucked big pickled eggs. However, she still finds it comforting to be able to socialize from time to time, even if it might not lead to anything. By the conclusion the reader is more knowledgeable about the Georgian world as well as having glimpsed the private life of the Georgian home, but Vickery presents her material with such a light touch that the reader is thoroughly entertained along the way. but a man whose only interest is in locking up and torturing a woman with down's syndrome who is melodramatic enough to decorate her bloodred cell with paintings he's forced her sister to paint of his battered clients?Inspection copies are books under consideration as required or recommended reading for an upcoming course. Though she attempts to drop hints that Jack is a crazy person, and has even tried to yell for help in the supermarket, she has stopped those pleas for assistance from the outside world because Jack has told the police and her doctors that she is mentally unstable. As I got near the end and the really tense final pages where the past catches up with the present, I literally could not stop until I finished the book, finally putting my light out at 1am!