![]() ![]() Left alone with two mutinous charges and a house that can be controlled remotely is enough to stretch Rowan to her last nerve. The home, Heatherbrae House, is a “smart home,” where every convenience is controlled by an app named “Happy” and every room except the bathrooms are monitored by security cameras. Her charges, 8-year-old Maddie and 5-year-old Ellie, are fractious and have already burned through several caregivers. Almost immediately her fears are validated. The pay is outstanding, the residence is a beautiful estate in the Scottish Highlands, and the parents want her to start right now. Rowan Caine worries that the live-in nanny job she’s secured may be a little too good to be true. ![]() Part epistolary novel, part psychological thriller, The Turn of the Key is compulsively readable and will keep readers guessing until the very last page. Ruth Ware’s homage to The Turn of the Screw is filled with all of the best gothic elements: an unreliable narrator, an isolated setting, creepy children and a house that functions as its own menacing character. ![]()
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