Welcome to The Starlings… sun, sea and neighbours to die for.
Security, a sparkling sea view and the best kind of neighbours – The Starlings gated community has it all. Here, doors are left open, children run free, and at the heart of it all is the entrepreneurial Gold Family, who first dreamed up this aspirational vision of ‘Dorset’s Safest Community’. To the outside world the popular family appears glitteringly blessed… until an idyllic party takes a dark turn and one of their number is found slumped at the foot of the clocktower. Who knows what really happened? And what answers are harboured within the old building, the former Highcap Mother and Baby Home?’
PREORDER ONE GIRL, ONE SUMMER NOW – A BRAND NEW EMOTIONAL PAGETURNER SET IN THE BEAUTIFUL COASTAL TOWN OF HIGHCAP, DORSET.
My thoughts: The Starlings was built as a workhouse, the became a mother and baby home and finally an asylum before finally being abandoned. Purchased by the Golds and developed into a beautiful new complex of homes, but it’s ghosts still haunt the buildings and the residents.
Katrin Gold was probably the last baby born in the mother and baby home, and despite a childhood in care, she isn’t interested in finding her birth parents. But other residents, like Anne, also born in the home, feel differently. Digging into The Starlings’ past brings up tensions among the new neighbours.
Katrin is also dealing with family issues, her husband is cheating on her, her sister-in-law is a mess, her young niece needs her support. Things seem to have deteriorated since they all moved in.
Frida, Katrin’s teenage niece, needs her mother, but she’s permanently out for the count, she’s been suspended from her boarding school, and no one seems to care what happened to her.
When a terrible accident happens at The Starlings, the police start to dig in to the tangled lives of its residents and find all sorts of secrets. Clever and gripping, this is a really enjoyable thriller about secrets and family.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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