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21 Days
Stay home.
For Lauren Kidwell, lockdown doesn’t seem like much of a change to her normal life.
As an author, living by herself in a remote cottage in the Devonshire moorland, she works from home anyway.
She’s used to being alone.
Even so, she finds the thought of the next twenty-one days daunting. It’s not helped by a sudden bout of writer’s block, and panic attacks that occur each time she tries to work.
As the days pass, and her sense of isolation grows, Lauren starts to see things. A footprint that doesn’t belong to her in the flowerbed beside an open window. Items disappear only to reappear in a different spot. The food from her pantry goes missing.
Is Lauren’s overactive imagination searching for an outlet and so is playing tricks on her?
Or is she not as alone as she thinks?
For Lauren Kidwell, lockdown doesn’t seem like much of a change to her normal life.
As an author, living by herself in a remote cottage in the Devonshire moorland, she works from home anyway.
She’s used to being alone.
Even so, she finds the thought of the next twenty-one days daunting. It’s not helped by a sudden bout of writer’s block, and panic attacks that occur each time she tries to work.
As the days pass, and her sense of isolation grows, Lauren starts to see things. A footprint that doesn’t belong to her in the flowerbed beside an open window. Items disappear only to reappear in a different spot. The food from her pantry goes missing.
Is Lauren’s overactive imagination searching for an outlet and so is playing tricks on her?
Or is she not as alone as she thinks?
228 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 14, 2022
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M.K. Farrar
40 books146 followersM K Farrar had penned more than ten novels of psychological noir and crime fiction. A British author, she lives in the countryside with her three children and a menagerie of rescue pets. When she’s not writing—which isn’t often—she balances out all the murder with baking and binge-watching shows on Netflix.
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July 29, 2022
The Pandemic Lockdown...When Mind And Body Resist...
This is the story of an author, used to being alone, but now she is mandated to keep away from others due to a virus. What a difference being Told what to do and doing something on your own can be!
Lauren Kidwell loves her life, her characters talk to her constantly and she is able to put it all down into her written work, producing books that many enjoy. So she has to stay in her home, she does that anyway! She won't get mail, can't go to the store, she has plenty of supplies on hand! This will be easy, just regular life, right?! Until it isn't...
The characters are trying to talk, but she has a panic attack as she attempts to write it down. A can of tuna is missing...There were three, right...Now there are only two...What is that noise?! Her mind will Not shut off...Is there Someone in here? ... Is she really NOT ALONE??
I really felt it was me in the story, as I lived through the first part of the pandemic alone! Your mind goes to some crazy places...
This is the story of an author, used to being alone, but now she is mandated to keep away from others due to a virus. What a difference being Told what to do and doing something on your own can be!
Lauren Kidwell loves her life, her characters talk to her constantly and she is able to put it all down into her written work, producing books that many enjoy. So she has to stay in her home, she does that anyway! She won't get mail, can't go to the store, she has plenty of supplies on hand! This will be easy, just regular life, right?! Until it isn't...
The characters are trying to talk, but she has a panic attack as she attempts to write it down. A can of tuna is missing...There were three, right...Now there are only two...What is that noise?! Her mind will Not shut off...Is there Someone in here? ... Is she really NOT ALONE??
I really felt it was me in the story, as I lived through the first part of the pandemic alone! Your mind goes to some crazy places...
July 24, 2022
Thank you, M.K Farrar for the digital ARC of 21 days, for my fair and honest opinions.
21 days is a stand-alone psychological thriller by MK Farrar set during the first 21 days of lockdown.
Laura Kidwell is an author living in the countryside just her and her chickens. She has no neighbours, and her nearest shop involves a car journey, she’s isolated which is how she liked it. That was until isolation was no longer her choice. Unable to write she is spending her days watching thee news and obsessing about getting covid. So when things start to move and go missing she is certain someone is stalking her, stealing her food and threatening. This isn’t helped by the scratching she is hearing in the walls, not only does she have a stalker she has an uninvited creature in her walls ( I don’t know what’s worse to be honest!!!!!)
I’ve read a few books set in covid and I must say this has been the best thus far but I must say this is the best one. The suspense in this book is unreal, imagine hearing creeks in your house when you are alone and things start to go missing at a time when you know exactly what you have as it’s during covid? Honestly the writing is so good it made me nervous in my own house. The idea of being stalked, someone coming in and out of your house and having no one to talk to about it would drive anyone insane! It’s a page turner, 21 days in 21 chapters that in itself was amazing, the chapters weren’t too long and that just kept me hooked from beginning to end.
Laura is an interesting character she’s very anxious and that is clear from the beginning. I wasn’t a fan of her particularly but I felt like that was the point. But let’s be honest I would be paranoid myself especially if I was living in a cottage in the middle of no where. I felt all of her anxiety when I was reading it which I think is a skill that M.K Farrar has when she writes which is why she is my favourite author. I have read all her crime books and I will now make my way through the rest of her stand alone books the fact that she can cross through genre’s shows how talented she really is.
I found that although I didn’t like the main character that didn’t put me off the book, I just wanted to find out more. By putting the chapters as days it meant that each day focused on a key event for the day as well as keeping them short it also meant that I couldn’t wait to get to day 21 and find out what happened and why there was no day 22! I wasn’t let down when I got there. I had a theory about the twists in the book which was completely wrong, when I finished it I had five more. What I will say is it’s leaves the reader with more questions than answers but also leaves the gate open for a book two which is a genius idea and I hope this happens!
With a great author, great plot, interesting lead and one twisted mind game this is an amazing psychological thriller one I would totally recommend to others how like the genre. It left me questioning everything I thought I knew and a bit freaked out (had to lock my front door). Although I didn’t love Laura as a lead it didn’t deter me from reading nor did the fact it is based in the first month of the pandemic. I loved the links to real life events with reference to the news, death tolls and our prime minister (former) was well written and also it. It’s the right time in my mind to read a book set during covid now we are on the other side of the pandemic. All in all I would totally recommend 21 days by M.K Farrar 4.5*.
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21 days is a stand-alone psychological thriller by MK Farrar set during the first 21 days of lockdown.
Laura Kidwell is an author living in the countryside just her and her chickens. She has no neighbours, and her nearest shop involves a car journey, she’s isolated which is how she liked it. That was until isolation was no longer her choice. Unable to write she is spending her days watching thee news and obsessing about getting covid. So when things start to move and go missing she is certain someone is stalking her, stealing her food and threatening. This isn’t helped by the scratching she is hearing in the walls, not only does she have a stalker she has an uninvited creature in her walls ( I don’t know what’s worse to be honest!!!!!)
I’ve read a few books set in covid and I must say this has been the best thus far but I must say this is the best one. The suspense in this book is unreal, imagine hearing creeks in your house when you are alone and things start to go missing at a time when you know exactly what you have as it’s during covid? Honestly the writing is so good it made me nervous in my own house. The idea of being stalked, someone coming in and out of your house and having no one to talk to about it would drive anyone insane! It’s a page turner, 21 days in 21 chapters that in itself was amazing, the chapters weren’t too long and that just kept me hooked from beginning to end.
Laura is an interesting character she’s very anxious and that is clear from the beginning. I wasn’t a fan of her particularly but I felt like that was the point. But let’s be honest I would be paranoid myself especially if I was living in a cottage in the middle of no where. I felt all of her anxiety when I was reading it which I think is a skill that M.K Farrar has when she writes which is why she is my favourite author. I have read all her crime books and I will now make my way through the rest of her stand alone books the fact that she can cross through genre’s shows how talented she really is.
I found that although I didn’t like the main character that didn’t put me off the book, I just wanted to find out more. By putting the chapters as days it meant that each day focused on a key event for the day as well as keeping them short it also meant that I couldn’t wait to get to day 21 and find out what happened and why there was no day 22! I wasn’t let down when I got there. I had a theory about the twists in the book which was completely wrong, when I finished it I had five more. What I will say is it’s leaves the reader with more questions than answers but also leaves the gate open for a book two which is a genius idea and I hope this happens!
With a great author, great plot, interesting lead and one twisted mind game this is an amazing psychological thriller one I would totally recommend to others how like the genre. It left me questioning everything I thought I knew and a bit freaked out (had to lock my front door). Although I didn’t love Laura as a lead it didn’t deter me from reading nor did the fact it is based in the first month of the pandemic. I loved the links to real life events with reference to the news, death tolls and our prime minister (former) was well written and also it. It’s the right time in my mind to read a book set during covid now we are on the other side of the pandemic. All in all I would totally recommend 21 days by M.K Farrar 4.5*.
Also found on Instagram blog @JazzReadsRepeatsReviews
July 19, 2022
3 ½ stars
This book is the author’s musings about the first lockdown in the UK and how much it could impact on your everyday life and affect things it really shouldn’t. The main character in this book is a solitary female author, Lauren Kidwell, who works from home anyway, in the remote Devonshire moorlands with her nearest neighbour at least twenty minutes away. The lockdown was announced as only being for three weeks and she thought initially that it would have no effect on her, seeing as she was pretty self-reliant and worked from home, writing chapters for her next romance book. But the news of the numbers of dead all across Europe soon make her rethink her every move. She starts to get obsessive about washing her hands multiple times a day, even though there is no one else around. The only person she even saw in the first week, was the postman and he hasn’t been back since! She has her four chickens out in their coop in the garden and her greenhouse, with its starters all coming along nicely. She can’t get food delivered anymore and her attempt to go into the nearest village in her car was a failure, as everything was closed either due to shortages of supplies or the virus itself.
Unfortunately, she finds herself completely unable to even write a word on her computer and the more days she tries, the worse it gets, until she starts having panic attacks over the simplest of things. She comes back to find one of her window latches broken and a possible footprint under the window outside, but due to her scattered brain and sleep problems, she puts that aside. She inventories her dry food goods, to see if she has enough to last, but when she checks again, a tin of food has disappeared. This continues to happen and she can’t find any evidence of where the food has gone, anywhere in the house. She starts hearing noises in the ceiling and even in the walls, which start to drive her a bit mad, every night. She thinks maybe she left a door unlocked when she was outside and someone came in and stole something, but then even after she gets really careful about locking the doors and blocking them, things still get moved or disappear. She checked what she could of her loft, but with no real light source or torch, it wasn’t the best of investigations! Matters start to escalate and she is being slowly but surely driven from her house, only she doesn’t exactly get very far! Is she imagining everything that is happening, or is there really someone evil in her house? The mind can play tricks at the best of times, but the stress of the unknown and an enforced period of isolation can do strange things to anyone.
A bit of a twist at the end as you find out a bit of the truth of what may or may not have happened, and you can sense something else might be about to happen as well, when her sister and family come up once the lockdown ended. Lauren carries guilt from an event in her childhood and has never been able to forgive herself for it. It has probably led her to the lifestyle and work she lives. But she definitely declines rapidly in her own safe haven and allows matters to get out of control quickly! I didn’t really want to read a book about lockdown and the virus, but if you forget about that slightly, then this is a horror story of what lurks above you and that you should never poke the bear! I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
This book is the author’s musings about the first lockdown in the UK and how much it could impact on your everyday life and affect things it really shouldn’t. The main character in this book is a solitary female author, Lauren Kidwell, who works from home anyway, in the remote Devonshire moorlands with her nearest neighbour at least twenty minutes away. The lockdown was announced as only being for three weeks and she thought initially that it would have no effect on her, seeing as she was pretty self-reliant and worked from home, writing chapters for her next romance book. But the news of the numbers of dead all across Europe soon make her rethink her every move. She starts to get obsessive about washing her hands multiple times a day, even though there is no one else around. The only person she even saw in the first week, was the postman and he hasn’t been back since! She has her four chickens out in their coop in the garden and her greenhouse, with its starters all coming along nicely. She can’t get food delivered anymore and her attempt to go into the nearest village in her car was a failure, as everything was closed either due to shortages of supplies or the virus itself.
Unfortunately, she finds herself completely unable to even write a word on her computer and the more days she tries, the worse it gets, until she starts having panic attacks over the simplest of things. She comes back to find one of her window latches broken and a possible footprint under the window outside, but due to her scattered brain and sleep problems, she puts that aside. She inventories her dry food goods, to see if she has enough to last, but when she checks again, a tin of food has disappeared. This continues to happen and she can’t find any evidence of where the food has gone, anywhere in the house. She starts hearing noises in the ceiling and even in the walls, which start to drive her a bit mad, every night. She thinks maybe she left a door unlocked when she was outside and someone came in and stole something, but then even after she gets really careful about locking the doors and blocking them, things still get moved or disappear. She checked what she could of her loft, but with no real light source or torch, it wasn’t the best of investigations! Matters start to escalate and she is being slowly but surely driven from her house, only she doesn’t exactly get very far! Is she imagining everything that is happening, or is there really someone evil in her house? The mind can play tricks at the best of times, but the stress of the unknown and an enforced period of isolation can do strange things to anyone.
A bit of a twist at the end as you find out a bit of the truth of what may or may not have happened, and you can sense something else might be about to happen as well, when her sister and family come up once the lockdown ended. Lauren carries guilt from an event in her childhood and has never been able to forgive herself for it. It has probably led her to the lifestyle and work she lives. But she definitely declines rapidly in her own safe haven and allows matters to get out of control quickly! I didn’t really want to read a book about lockdown and the virus, but if you forget about that slightly, then this is a horror story of what lurks above you and that you should never poke the bear! I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
July 26, 2022
Lockdown for twenty-one days has just been announced by the Prime Minister due to the rising numbers of Coronavirus. Lauren lives by herself and is a writer and works from home, in a lovely cottage down on Dartmoor moor, so she isn’t too worried about the change at the start as she hardly sees anyone due to the remote location she is in.
Although as the days start to go by and the deliveries are cancelled due to the remoteness of the cottage, it makes her realise just how alone she really is. Her milk, bread, meat and veg deliveries have all been cancelled and she hasn’t seen the postman for a few days either. The food doesn’t matter as she is well stocked so can keep going without the need for a shop as the nearest is a good half hour away. She can get out to exercise as she has the moors to walk around and the views are exquisite, she loves the walks she goes on. She usually starts her day in her office at the computer by writing some of her book but she has found she is struggling to do this since the lockdown was announced. She can open the document but then she has a panic attack and has to leave the room. Even if she tries to write it down on a pad, the same effect happens so she has given up for the moment. She has concentrated on going for a walk on the moor and enjoying that instead.
One day when she comes back from a walk, she notices a kitchen window is open. She thought that was strange but when she looked, the latch was broken off and there was a footprint in the flowerbed under the window. Who could have been looking in her window? She went to get her tools to sort the window out. Then she thought she would check to see how the tinned supplies were holding out. So she emptied the cupboard and tidied it, counting the cans when she put everything back in. A few days later she counted them again, a tin was missing. Where could it have gone? Could she have used it and forgotten? She didn’t think so. She went out to start the car and luckily the car started. When she came back in, she slung the keys down on top of the cupboard. She went back later and they weren’t there. She was sure she had put them there, she checked under the cupboard and when she got up, she saw them hanging up on the hook. That was strange, how did they get up there?
She was catching glimpses out of the corner of her eye of someone. A bird in the chimney had to be freed. An animal scratching in the walls that was sending her potty as it kept moving around. Just what was going on in her cottage?
This was a fantastic psychological story to read. The author really built up the tension towards the end, although you got a bit of the final day at the start! I found this was a great book to read and I really enjoyed it. The build up to the ending was immense and very measured, just brilliant writing.
Although as the days start to go by and the deliveries are cancelled due to the remoteness of the cottage, it makes her realise just how alone she really is. Her milk, bread, meat and veg deliveries have all been cancelled and she hasn’t seen the postman for a few days either. The food doesn’t matter as she is well stocked so can keep going without the need for a shop as the nearest is a good half hour away. She can get out to exercise as she has the moors to walk around and the views are exquisite, she loves the walks she goes on. She usually starts her day in her office at the computer by writing some of her book but she has found she is struggling to do this since the lockdown was announced. She can open the document but then she has a panic attack and has to leave the room. Even if she tries to write it down on a pad, the same effect happens so she has given up for the moment. She has concentrated on going for a walk on the moor and enjoying that instead.
One day when she comes back from a walk, she notices a kitchen window is open. She thought that was strange but when she looked, the latch was broken off and there was a footprint in the flowerbed under the window. Who could have been looking in her window? She went to get her tools to sort the window out. Then she thought she would check to see how the tinned supplies were holding out. So she emptied the cupboard and tidied it, counting the cans when she put everything back in. A few days later she counted them again, a tin was missing. Where could it have gone? Could she have used it and forgotten? She didn’t think so. She went out to start the car and luckily the car started. When she came back in, she slung the keys down on top of the cupboard. She went back later and they weren’t there. She was sure she had put them there, she checked under the cupboard and when she got up, she saw them hanging up on the hook. That was strange, how did they get up there?
She was catching glimpses out of the corner of her eye of someone. A bird in the chimney had to be freed. An animal scratching in the walls that was sending her potty as it kept moving around. Just what was going on in her cottage?
This was a fantastic psychological story to read. The author really built up the tension towards the end, although you got a bit of the final day at the start! I found this was a great book to read and I really enjoyed it. The build up to the ending was immense and very measured, just brilliant writing.
July 21, 2022
21 Days is a recollection of life under lockdown that each one of us on this planet has experienced at one moment or the other in the last two years. The loneliness, despair, lack of human contact, lack of basic supplies, and above all the not knowing if you could get the virus, and what's worse, not survive it and infect others. In this story, all of these issues are also impacted by a crime that only enlarged the already depressing circumstances.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
August 3, 2022
Lauren is an author who lives in a remote cottage all alone so when a virus causes everyone to go into lockdown she's okay with it. Until things start taking some crazy turns. On top of all the craziness going on Lauren is having trouble writing and now she's having panic attacks. 21 Days had an interesting storyline with mystery, unexpected twists, and an ending I wasn't expecting. This is a well written, psychological thriller that had me on the edge of my seat wondering how it would end. I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book.
August 7, 2022
I was intrigued by the premise of this book; the early days of the first lockdown, as experienced by a writer who lives alone in an isolated house on Dartmoor.
For me the pacing was a bit erratic and rather than tension building as she questions first her own actions and eventually her sanity, it felt slow and repetitive. There were good moments and the lead up to the end was particularly good, even though the end was a bit of a let down. Overall I was left a bit disappointed.
This was a 2.5/5 Star read from me.
For me the pacing was a bit erratic and rather than tension building as she questions first her own actions and eventually her sanity, it felt slow and repetitive. There were good moments and the lead up to the end was particularly good, even though the end was a bit of a let down. Overall I was left a bit disappointed.
This was a 2.5/5 Star read from me.
March 9, 2025
So...for 90% of this book I couldn't wait for it to end. Then it did and I really enjoyed the way it ended. Here are the problems. This happens during the pandemic so the main character is isolated. I mean, really isolated. Which means she's essentially the only character, there's virtually no dialogue, and day after day after day after day it's the same thing. She hears noises. Things are moved. She has writer's block (she is an author). Enough already! I appreciate the effort (and the ending) but I need more in a story.
July 21, 2022
Wow!!!
This is an outstanding thriller that will keep you hooked till the end!
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.
Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.
Recommend reading.
I read a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest review.
This is an outstanding thriller that will keep you hooked till the end!
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.
Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.
Recommend reading.
I read a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest review.
July 22, 2022
I have to say that I loved this book from the beginning till the end. There were so many twists and turns that I didn't know what would happen next in this book. I mean it starts out with Covid and all of that and just spins off into a direction I did not see coming. It was such a fun read that I can not wait to read more by this author.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
August 28, 2022
For Lauren Kidwell, lockdown doesn’t seem like much of a change to her normal life. As an author, living by herself in a remote cottage in the Devonshire moorland, she works from home anyway.
She’s used to being alone. Except when there’s a virus & she has to. It was an intense read. And am voluntarily leaving my review.
She’s used to being alone. Except when there’s a virus & she has to. It was an intense read. And am voluntarily leaving my review.
July 18, 2022
Boring with a capital B
So boring, slow, I skipped through stopping to read every few pages. The book does end leaving an opening for a continuing story. Maybe that one will be better.
There’s always hope.
So boring, slow, I skipped through stopping to read every few pages. The book does end leaving an opening for a continuing story. Maybe that one will be better.
There’s always hope.
July 24, 2022
21 days
The reviews for this book were not very good but I decided to read it anyway. The reviews were right.....very disappointed with this book.
The reviews for this book were not very good but I decided to read it anyway. The reviews were right.....very disappointed with this book.
July 23, 2022
Book: 21 Days: A Lockdown Psychological Thriller
Author: M.K. Farrar
My Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by: Tammy - Book Nook Nuts
REVIEW
The author weaves a tale that is so believable you will have nightmares.
Lauren has always loved being alone, she is a writer it never bothered her.
Now that the virus is spreading and everyone is being forced on lockdown it feels like something is off in her unshakable world. But what? Who?
Being a writer Lauren has one heck of vivid imagination but is that all that it is?
C.R.E.E.P.Y is all I can say. Very well written and one heck of a mind-blowing story!
M.K. Farrar
Author: M.K. Farrar
My Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by: Tammy - Book Nook Nuts
REVIEW
The author weaves a tale that is so believable you will have nightmares.
Lauren has always loved being alone, she is a writer it never bothered her.
Now that the virus is spreading and everyone is being forced on lockdown it feels like something is off in her unshakable world. But what? Who?
Being a writer Lauren has one heck of vivid imagination but is that all that it is?
C.R.E.E.P.Y is all I can say. Very well written and one heck of a mind-blowing story!
M.K. Farrar
December 27, 2023
Lauren already lives an isolated life, so she assumes lockdown will be a piece of cake for her. But gradually cracks begin to appear as her sanity tears itself to shreds.
A claustrophobic pandemic tale.
A claustrophobic pandemic tale.
July 24, 2022
Lockdown for twenty-one days has just been announced by the Prime Minister due to the rising numbers of Coronavirus. Lauren lives by herself and is a writer and works from home, in a lovely cottage down on Dartmoor moor, so she isn’t too worried about the change at the start as she hardly sees anyone due to the remote location she is in.
Although as the days start to go by and the deliveries are cancelled due to the remoteness of the cottage, it makes her realise just how alone she really is. Her milk, bread, meat and veg deliveries have all been cancelled and she hasn’t seen the postman for a few days either. The food doesn’t matter as she is well stocked so can keep going without the need for a shop as the nearest is a good half hour away. She can get out to exercise as she has the moors to walk around and the views are exquisite, she loves the walks she goes on. She usually starts her day in her office at the computer by writing some of her book but she has found she is struggling to do this since the lockdown was announced. She can open the document but then she has a panic attack and has to leave the room. Even if she tries to write it down on a pad, the same effect happens so she has given up for the moment. She has concentrated on going for a walk on the moor and enjoying that instead.
One day when she comes back from a walk, she notices a kitchen window is open. She thought that was strange but when she looked, the latch was broken off and there was a footprint in the flowerbed under the window. Who could have been looking in her window? She went to get her tools to sort the window out. Then she thought she would check to see how the tinned supplies were holding out. So she emptied the cupboard and tidied it, counting the cans when she put everything back in. A few days later she counted them again, a tin was missing. Where could it have gone? Could she have used it and forgotten? She didn’t think so. She went out to start the car and luckily the car started. When she came back in, she slung the keys down on top of the cupboard. She went back later and they weren’t there. She was sure she had put them there, she checked under the cupboard and when she got up, she saw them hanging up on the hook. That was strange, how did they get up there?
She was catching glimpses out of the corner of her eye of someone. A bird in the chimney had to be freed. An animal scratching in the walls that was sending her potty as it kept moving around. Just what was going on in her cottage?
This was a fantastic psychological story to read. The author really built up the tension towards the end, although you got a bit of the final day at the start! I found this was a great book to read and I really enjoyed it. The build up to the ending was immense and very measured, just brilliant writing.
Although as the days start to go by and the deliveries are cancelled due to the remoteness of the cottage, it makes her realise just how alone she really is. Her milk, bread, meat and veg deliveries have all been cancelled and she hasn’t seen the postman for a few days either. The food doesn’t matter as she is well stocked so can keep going without the need for a shop as the nearest is a good half hour away. She can get out to exercise as she has the moors to walk around and the views are exquisite, she loves the walks she goes on. She usually starts her day in her office at the computer by writing some of her book but she has found she is struggling to do this since the lockdown was announced. She can open the document but then she has a panic attack and has to leave the room. Even if she tries to write it down on a pad, the same effect happens so she has given up for the moment. She has concentrated on going for a walk on the moor and enjoying that instead.
One day when she comes back from a walk, she notices a kitchen window is open. She thought that was strange but when she looked, the latch was broken off and there was a footprint in the flowerbed under the window. Who could have been looking in her window? She went to get her tools to sort the window out. Then she thought she would check to see how the tinned supplies were holding out. So she emptied the cupboard and tidied it, counting the cans when she put everything back in. A few days later she counted them again, a tin was missing. Where could it have gone? Could she have used it and forgotten? She didn’t think so. She went out to start the car and luckily the car started. When she came back in, she slung the keys down on top of the cupboard. She went back later and they weren’t there. She was sure she had put them there, she checked under the cupboard and when she got up, she saw them hanging up on the hook. That was strange, how did they get up there?
She was catching glimpses out of the corner of her eye of someone. A bird in the chimney had to be freed. An animal scratching in the walls that was sending her potty as it kept moving around. Just what was going on in her cottage?
This was a fantastic psychological story to read. The author really built up the tension towards the end, although you got a bit of the final day at the start! I found this was a great book to read and I really enjoyed it. The build up to the ending was immense and very measured, just brilliant writing.
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