It's a great thing Our House doesn't come out until August, because that gives Louise Candlish time to re-work the way her gripping story is framed. Remniscent of The Girl Before and The Couple Next Door, everything you think you know -- you don't. When Fiona comes home one day, she finds a couple moving into her family's home and they claim they purchased it fair and square. Candlish takes this story in three directions: what happens on that day (from Fiona and husband Bram's perspectives), a document Bram is writing detailing why all these things are happening, and Fiona explaining on a radio program what happened. It keeps readers intrigued for the most part, but the ending wasn't utterly satisfying. Try this book in a couple months and hopefully it will have all the kinks worked out!

A great psychological thriller told from the husband’s side as a word document & the wife’s side through a podcast. They both have hidden secrets that ends in an ending you won’t soon forget.

Loved this twisty plot. The 4 different narratives Fi's, the present, the comments from the Vic. audience, and Bram's. The end was a stunner. The fact that Bram's word doc was his history leading to his suicide, And because he came clean on all counts, he inadvertently sends Fi a final blow.

A decent mystery/thriller trying to be a bit different, with mixed results. I'm not sure telling the story with the Podcast/Word Document device worked. The use of shifting P.O.V.'s and narrator's by changing chapters works because it doesn't break things up too much and cause the reader to lose track or be confused. But this book, in an effort to be different (it's boring to do the same thing, so I get wanting to shake it up), chose to create chapters that included a "podcast episode" to tell Fi's story, then a "word document" to tell Bram's story, then just a random insertion of text to bring us to the present actions, or present at that time. It was difficult to follow at first, and I never really got into a rhythm. The actual story is interesting enough to pull the reader through this, because we want to know what's going on! Still, it takes a lot of belief-suspending to get through it, and the book is honestly a lot longer than necessary for this kind of tale. I never quite got the why's of Bram (would anyone do what he did, honestly?).

Fiona Lawson and her husband Bram, tried to make things easier on their children when they divorced by agreeing to let the boys stay at the family home. Fiona and her husband would be the ones coming and going, taking turns living at the house and caring for the children. This works (kind of) until the day Fiona comes home to find total strangers moving into the house. What the hell is going on? Bram and the boys have disappeared and it appears he has kidnapped the children, leaving no clue behind as to their whereabouts. But Fiona will not sit idly by and let her children be stolen from her, she has a few secrets of her own. This book scared me! I can’t imagine a more nightmarish scenario than this, it’s like living a waking nightmare. Cavendish is skilled at knowing what scares her readers