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Down by the Water
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
Seven friends. A castle in the woods. An uninvited guest....
A thriller perfect for fans of Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood and Lucy Foley's The Hunting Party.
Seven friends gather at a castle in the Scottish Borders. One last girls' weekend before Georgina's wedding. Near the castle, through a path in the woods, is a loch. After a few bottles of Prosecco, the girls head down to the water to take photos. The loch is wild, lonely and stunningly beautiful. They set their camera to self-timer and take some group shots. Later, looking back at the pictures, they see something impossible.
Behind them, eyes wide, a small, drenched boy emerges from the water.
How did he get there? Where is he now? And what does he want?
The girls thought they knew each other's darkest secrets, but one of them has been hiding something terrible. Consumed by grief, she's been waiting for the perfect moment to wreak her revenge....
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- Helen
- 19-10-21
Gripping
This was a gripping and strange book - strange because I never knew where it was going, and that made it all the more intriguing.
Elle Connel very skilfully sketches this reunion of university friends, and with their brittle, self-conscious conversations you feel early on that they are having to try too hard to enjoy themselves. Why are they at this hen party together at all? And how well do these friends actually know each other?
It looked as if it might turn out a ghost story, or a gothic horror, or a thriller - but that would have been a lesser book!
This was a very satisfying work, beautifully read (although maybe it could have done with less dramatic emphasis on every single use of the word ‘then’) and I enjoyed every minute of it.
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- san2har
- 31-07-21
Dire
The story of a hen party of university friends in a castle in Scotland. I don’t know why I persevered with this tale. None of the women were likeable. All privileged and entitled they droned on. There was a loch involved in which a twin sister had drowned and by the end I wished they had all jumped in the loch especially the bride to be. Her fiancé was the lover of the drowned sister who had borne his child - I think but by this time I was losing the will to live. Sorry it was awful
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