Review for The Home by Karen Osman: ★★★★★

The Home by Karen Osman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


::..Reviewed for Red's Midnight Readers..::

I was very kindly offered a paperback ARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review and I have given it five stars.

In three words I. LOVED. IT.

I could not get enough and found myself spellbound from the very first page and honestly found myself eating up every single word as fast as I could!

Karen Osman clearly shows what an amazingly talented author she is with The Home! It was so dark and tense and there were some twists and turns that were utterly shocking that they will left me gasping for breath.
Some parts of this story were a little difficult to stomach but I think that added to the spine tingling atmosphere that the author builds up with each and every shocking event that unfolds throughout.

This is the first book by Karen Osman that I have read but it won't be the last.

Blurb

Angela was just a baby when her mum left her for the last time, and a children's home is no place to grow up. The home's manager Ray takes the girls off to his 'den' in the garden and the littlies come back crying, and Ray's wife Kath has special wooden spoons which she saves for beating any of the children who dare to misbehave.

So, when wealthy couple James and Rosemary come to choose a child to adopt, Angela is desperate to escape. But the scars of her childhood remain, and when Angela's search for her birth mother Evelyn is successful, their reunion is no fairy tale. Soon strange and sinister events start to unfold, and Evelyn fears she may not survive her daughter's return...

The Home is another devastating psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling The Good Mother.

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