The Insect House, Shirley Day
The Insect House, Shirley Day
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The Insect House

Author: Shirley Day

Narrator: Jilly Bond, Simon Mattacks, Mark Meadows, Regina Reagan

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2023


Synopsis

As children, siblings Gareth and Helen went ignored and utterly unsupervised in their isolated English farmhouse while their mother obsessively tended to her beloved, exquisite garden. When they were little, Gareth would occupy himself by trapping insects under glass and Helen would find ways to entertain herself - but the older they grew, the more sinister their lives became, with no attentive parent to shield them from the predators of the world. Decades later, Helen is in the same crumbling house, unhappily married and looking after their bedridden mother, and Gareth finally returns home. Evidence of a long-ago crime has recently emerged, and in its wake will come a series of shattering truths . . .

Reviews

My go to genre of books is usually crime thrillers with a typical chick lit thrown in to mix it up every so often. This book was neither of those, and although it didn't have me on the edge of my seat, I still really enjoyed it and wanted to pick it up at every opportunity so I could find out the end......more

Goodreads review by Heather

This story so successfully transports you that you quickly lose track of all time. The ever present mystery pulls you along while you pull back, wanting to fully drink in the elaborate scenes and complex characters. You can easily summon in your minds eye the beautiful English landscape, filtered by......more

Goodreads review by Rick

The Insect House is a mystery novel that is not all what it seems. In her debut mystery novel Shirley Day introduces us to Helen, a housewife who lives in an ambling old house in East Anglia. Helen is waiting for her brother to arrive after a 24-year absence. What appears to the return of the prodig......more