![]() ![]() But she’s no sooner moved in than her expectations are confounded, in ways large and small. Rowan is to be a live-in child minder her room, on the top floor of the spacious dwelling, is cozy and inviting. (And was there something else weighing on her as well?) The city’s crowded confusion had come to weight on her unpleasantly. Best of all, it will provide Rowan with an escape from London. The post has much to recommend it: the setting is beautiful, and Sandra, the children’s mother, is warm and welcoming. ![]() ![]() The evocatively named Rowan Caine has taken a position as nanny to three small children who live with their parents in the remote Highlands of Scotland. This is a novel that begins with a desperate plea,then goes back in time to delineate the beginning of an innocuous, even hopeful undertaking, only to move forward with inexorable speed and mounting dread, to culminate in…well, Reader, you’ll see. Octoat 9:54 pm ( Book review, books, Mystery fiction) The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ![]()
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