Our House by Louise Candlish
A family moves into the home they recently purchased on Trinity Avenue on a bright suburban morning. There is nothing odd about that. Nonetheless, it’s your home. Moreover, you didn’t sell it. Fiona Lawson is horrified and perplexed when she gets home to find strangers moving into her home. How could another family assume that their home on Trinity Avenue, which she and her husband Bram had owned for years, is their own? When she needs Bram the most, why has he vanished along with their two small children? As the nightmare sets in, Fiona starts to piece together the lies that resulted in a horrifying crime and a terrible betrayal that will teach her to keep her own secrets to herself.
Our House by Louise Candlish
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The notion of this novel is so wonderful that you find it hard to think Candlish will be able to carry it off. Fi Lawson, a woman, returns from a brief absence to find a family she has never met moving into her lovely, cherished home on Trinity Avenue in a highly wealthy neighbourhood of South West London. They contend that because they purchased it, it is now their property. Bram Lawson, Fi Lawson’s spouse, has vanished.
That is the basic idea. Her perspective dominates the dual narrative, but we also hear from the husband, who talks about how one mistake or lapse in judgment starts a chain reaction that destroys everyone’s lives and results in the sale of the family home without his wife’s knowledge. Beyond that, I can’t say anything without giving anything away.
Both the protagonist and the antagonist are present in this story. The story is given from both views, which I found to be interesting. It demonstrates the uncontrollable escalation of crime.
Although some of the reasons for the husband’s behaviour are not fully understood until towards the conclusion, it is still a very intriguing study of how upbringing can influence the course taken in adulthood.
The wife is credulous but yet understandable because she exemplifies how contemporary women who strive for perfection behave in society. She abandons her “responsible” social duty to adopt the same guilt as her husband, despite the fact that her ultimate act looks practically plausible.
She can be viewed as either a defective person or just a “normal” person who shares her husband’s frailty and fallibility.
All the unexpected turns kept me guessing right up until the very end, and even after I had done it, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The constant flashing back and forth in time made it at times difficult for me to keep up with, but overall it made for a fantastic story that I greatly enjoyed.
