If you liked Rose Tremain's Trespass...
...here’s another couple of novels that delves into families with dark secrets...
Your Blue-Eyed Boy by Helen Dunmore
Worlds collide in Dunmore’s passionate thriller, set in the fens at the end of summertime...
There are things you should know about blackmail, in case it comes tapping at your door'. Simone reluctantly gives up her thriving London legal practice to take a highly paid, but stressful, job as a District Judge. With two small boys and a husband on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown, she struggles to maintain a normal family life. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to her and postmarked New York. Someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her...
The Beacon by Susan Hill
Susan Hill’s atmospheric novel examines the slippery nature of memory in a haunting tale about a farming family grounded in the seasons. The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had been born and reared there, May, Colin, Frank and Berenice, but only May had been left for the last 27 years... May had been the clever daughter and she had escaped the shelter of The Beacon, just once, to go to university. But in London she had been pursued by nameless terrors, the victim of fears and anxieties. Now she was the spinster daughter, the one who stayed, who nursed her father after his accident and looked after her mother in her old age. Frank was the one who got away. He married and moved on. But why does no one ever mention Frank's name?
