Our Dream Home

She has never won anything. Most days consist of the teenagers, a job she does not much like, and a husband who does not particularly notice her. Then they win a multi-million-pound house in the Cotswolds.

The threats start the day they move in. The neighbour arrives with a bottle of red and looks at her husband in a way that is hard to mistake. Then a message arrives congratulating her on the house, and mentioning that the sender knows what happened sixteen years ago.

Jessica Huntley builds the book on the distance between the life the narrator has just been handed and the thing she did before it, which she has never told her family about and which somebody in this village appears to have known all along.