Meanwhile the family has to have a lodger living in the basement to help them pay the bills. Rosie starts behaving badly - biting Eleanor and tantrumming - but while everyone tells her that it's typical behaviour for a three year old, Eleanor is convinced that the house is to blame. When she's away from the house she's fine, but inside she gets oppressive headaches and struggles to look after their little girls, Rosie and Isobel. The family haven't been in the house very long when Eleanor starts suffering nausea and sickness. She has her misgivings about the house entirely, but Richard is so excited by the project that she feels drawn along. The door to the room doesn't open easily and Eleanor gets a bad feeling about the room. They don't meet the house's vendors, the Ashworths, but when they move in to the four storey house, they discover that in one of the upstairs rooms the Ashworth daughter Emily has written her name all over the walls.
Basically I think that posh people need better problems.Įleanor and Richard buy a house at the beginning of the book. I kept going because the story was a compulsive read, but the book as a whole sort of annoyed me. I requested it in the library and picked it up last week. I asked for recommendations on Twitter recently for more contemporary gothic stories, and someone said they felt this fitted into the genre.
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