When I requested this book from Netgalley I thought it was psychological suspense. It is definitely psychological but not so much suspenseful. I had a little trouble getting into it and staying with it. I am not sure exactly why, perhaps it was just the English style of writing and slang.It was interesting but I felt like it moved slowly.
Lauren Tranter is a new mother of twins. She married after a short romance. She has a history of depression after her mother's death. She had a difficult birth with complications. She is sleep deprived. She thinks she is visited in the hospital by an old dirty woman with twins who wanted to exchange her twins for Lauren's. Everyone says there was no one there. When she goes home she refuses to leave the house and stays locked in her bedroom, terrified her twins will be taken. And then they are gone. The folklore of changelings and the reality of postpartum depression go hand in hand in this book. The use of the unreliable narrator further confuses things. The police detective who has problems of her own, who sort of believes Lauren but then doesn't adds to the confusion. I don't want to reveal too much. You must draw your own conclusions. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book. I will be interested to see the movie that I understand is being made from it. It should be really creepy.
Lauren Tranter is a new mother of twins. She married after a short romance. She has a history of depression after her mother's death. She had a difficult birth with complications. She is sleep deprived. She thinks she is visited in the hospital by an old dirty woman with twins who wanted to exchange her twins for Lauren's. Everyone says there was no one there. When she goes home she refuses to leave the house and stays locked in her bedroom, terrified her twins will be taken. And then they are gone. The folklore of changelings and the reality of postpartum depression go hand in hand in this book. The use of the unreliable narrator further confuses things. The police detective who has problems of her own, who sort of believes Lauren but then doesn't adds to the confusion. I don't want to reveal too much. You must draw your own conclusions. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book. I will be interested to see the movie that I understand is being made from it. It should be really creepy.