In My House

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Anyone who listens to Mark or Cathy speak about the abuse knows in their gut they are telling the truth. There are many parallels in this story, layers allowing the reader to recognize situations, to connect with characters, or to learn, and enjoy what looks like a perfect and balanced life with its ups and downs.

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THE LIAR’S CHAIR was published by Mantle in 2015 and was chosen for the Loose Women book club. Her second psychological thriller, THE HIDDEN GIRLS, was released in 2020 and was longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award. She is currently working on a third novel. How angry am I? You don’t want to know. Nobody wants to know about that,” opens Messud’s book, introducing us to Nora, single, 42 and tired of being good. She rewinds to tell us the story of her relationships with the Shahid family, each of them beautiful, brilliant and kind. We know from the outset that the ending won’t be pretty; the novel explores the ways in which both parties use each other, before landing on an unguessable twist. Thirty-two-year-old Daryl Taylor has been jailed for three years carrying out a "campaign of pressure" against his former partner. Full of the most dazzling observations which, as a writer, I wish that I'd had myself." - Allison PearsonIn 1956 he married the actor and model Shirley Lawrence. She died in 2016. He is survived by their two daughters, Leigh and Karen. I did however find that there were some aspects of the novel where I started to lose interest. I personally found the drama with her brother David a little annoying; I wasn’t really interested in his character or why he acted the way he did. The story is also quite slow moving in that not a huge amount ‘happens’, and that is never necessarily a negative thing in a book for me, but I did find myself feeling less engaged in the middle section of the book. However, as the book reaches its conclusion and wraps up, I found myself engrossed again and race through the ending. On demob in 1947, Glyn harboured ambitions to continue performing comedy, but failed an audition at the Windmill theatre in London. Instead, Donald eventually helped him to get a job as an assistant stage manager with Guildford repertory company in 1949. The following year he made his film debut as a barrow boy in The Blue Lamp (1950), memorable for constantly being told by police to “move on”. The novel’s title is borrowed from a poem by Derek Walcott, who implores us to learn to love ourselves before we lose ourselves completely to somebody else. If we can’t read it as a direct call to Nancy (who, in my opinion, is frustrating enough in her narcissism) then we can at least find a parallel in the theme of identity – Walcott encourages self-love, with the idea that we have a self who gives to others, and a separate self that only we can nurture. Hourston examines this throughout, with the threads of Nancy’s multiple selves threatening to unravel as the novel progresses. As a mother, she fights against the unwelcome realisation that her children are growing up and pulling away from her. Where once they needed her for everything, she is now finding that she needs them much more. She struggles with a difficult client at work, who is frustrating in her self-suppression and dishonesty – frustrating not only for Nancy, but for us readers can see the lines blurring between Marie’s case and Nancy’s own. Nancy’s relationship with her parents is fractious, and she struggles to play both disapproving older sister and childhood best friend to her brother. She gives love to her husband, but, by being with Adam, also to herself.