![]() ![]() She hasn't been back to her old hometown since that awful night so long ago, but now she must return because her fiance has invited her to a wedding there. Something so terrible happened there that she has buried it deep within her, causing her to change her name and keep her secret. When she was a teenager, she was called Esme, and she lived in an old house by a bleak estuary with her parents and three siblings. She has no family and no home, but she has a small job in publishing and a boyfriend who wants to marry her. ![]() “The Crooked House” is a psychological thriller set in a claustrophobic English seaside town where you're an outsider if your family hasn't lived there for generations.Īlison is almost a nonperson, and that's the way she wants it. “The Crooked House” by Christobel Kent (Sarah Crichton Books, 357 pages, in stores) ![]()
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