The Heights: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Our House comes a nail-biting story about a mother's obsession with revenge

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Thank you to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for a widget of the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Expected Publication Date: 3/1/22. No one creates middle-class characters we love to hate quite like Louise Candlish. I'd expected her to do this, and to provide a great sense of place, and twists that would have been rifling through the book to see how they'd been done. What I wasn't expecting was that this thriller of obsessive revenge and intense parental grief would tug at my heartstrings. Smart, addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended' Sarah Vaughan When thinking of the character, Ellen Saint, I picture a ball of fire, consuming her every minute of every day. True Ellen and her ex-mate, Vic have a valid reason for hating Kiernan, a new friend of their son, Lucas, and believe Kiernan to have been the devil who led their son done a path to drugs, partying. After all, Lucas had been an angel of a son before Kiernan entered the picture. However, there was much more to the story of Kiernan, who seemed to immediately feel that Ellen would be his nemesis forever. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Other Passenger and Our House – now a major ITV series – comes a nail-biting story about a mother’s obsession with revenge.

Ellen Saint cannot believe what she is seeing. As she gazes at the discreet rooftop terrace of “The Heights”, from the building across from it, she recognizes the man standing on it. But that isn’t possible. He has been dead for two years and she is the one who killed him.Ellen’s sections were the most exhausting to read. Supposedly, she’s a nice person, but the reader hardly ever witnesses it. The object of her hate was still legally a minor when her obsession began. Ellen seeks REVENGE on Kieran for destroying her family and will do whatever it takes to punish him. There's nothing quite so chilling as the roar of mother tiger love. Louise Candlish had my heart in my throat. Dizzily dark. Dangerous. Deadly' -- Jane Corry, author of The Lies We Tell So disappointed in this. Was really looking forward to it. Have enjoyed many of her books (Other Passenger was fab and a fave) but this was dire. Boring and questionable storyline and it dragged on and on.

No one creates middle-class characters we love to hate quite like Louise Candlish. I'd expected her to do this, and to provide a great sense of place, and twists that would have been rifling through the book to see how they'd been done. What I wasn't expecting was that this thriller of obsessive revenge and intense parental grief would tug at my heartstrings. Smart, addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended' -- Sarah Vaughan, author of Little Disasters Ellen Saint is working at a client’s home when she sees a man standing atop a roof terrace across from her. A man that she was confident she would never see again. Why was Ellen so sure, you ask? Because she killed him just over two years ago. Eleanor came there to see what Will was up to, but she’s starting to wonder whether she should just forget about all of that and explore the island. There’s a lot to see and do, and when her ex finds out that she’s made the journey, things are certainly going to get interesting– and maybe a little heated too. Part Four delivers ANOTHER clever ending! Even when I have worked out some of what is coming, I have NEVER guessed one of her outcomes in its entirety. The Heights is a tall apartment building in London- and from the terrace of this building, Ellen sees a man she knows for a fact is supposed to be dead. How can that be? Once it is determined that she wasn’t just imagining things- Ellen descends into a frenzy of obsession- determined to rid the world of a man she can’t allow to continue living on the same planet as herself…I've read books by Louise Candlish so when I saw that she had this one coming, I added it to my TBR and looked forward to its debut. Last week I received a message inviting me to read it early and I had to jump right in. I don't even remember what I was thinking about reading on the weekend because when this landed in my lap, I could not put it down! A woman glimpses a man on a roof terrace. Strange thing is, she knows he's dead. And she knows because she killed him... From the award-winning author of Our House' * The I * Candlish has a distinctive take on the contemporary psychological thriller. She skilfully mixes a droll portrayal of middle-class London suburban life with some extremely cunning plots -- Mail on Sunday

In the present we have Alex who seems to be coasting along in married bliss with his wife Beth. He lives in Silver Vale, he is not the friendliest of men but makes an effort. Side Nugget: I found the High Place Phenomenon experience very interesting, and I’m glad this book gave me something new to google. I won't spoil things but the story of Ellen and her grief over the death of her son turned into revenge fuel was a riveting story. She and her son's father, Vic narrate this tale and it was like navigating a slalom. If you enjoy an unreliable narrator (I do), this may be for you. I really enjoyed that! The tension was ramped up and in the last third, I wasn't sure where or how this was all going to end. The pacing was very well done and I also liked how online/media crusades were played in the story. Very timely and thoughtful. There's a final twist here that was almost too much but I decided not to squint too hard and let my credulity vault me over a moment to reader bliss. Whew! It was a ride and made my reading weekend! One caveat, you may not want to read this one in bed, the ending had me totally awake and took a while to come down and drift off to sleep. Worth it, though.

No one creates middle-class characters we love to hate quite like Louise Candlish...What I wasn't expecting was that this thriller of obsessive revenge and intense parental grief would tug at my heartstrings. Smart, addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended." - Sarah Vaughan I live in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the one in my novels with my husband, teenage daughter, and our fox-red Labrador Bertie. Tweede leven' is niet echt een superspannende thriller en ik zou ook dit verhaal eerder psychologisch noemen. Het leest supervlot en de afwisseling tussen het heden en het verleden vond ik echt goed in elkaar steken (vooral het verleden vond ik heel erg interessant). Uiteindelijk valt alles op zijn plek. When Ellen’s son Lucas befriends troubled teen Kieran, her instinct to keep her child safe intensifies. Ellen’s gut feeling is right as, within months, Lucas’s life has been destroyed. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between Ellen and Kieran, as she strives for revenge. Told through Ellen’s own heart-breaking account, you soon wonder whether her point of view is accurate, or if there’s another side to the story. A real nail-biter' Woman & Home

The Only Suspect is the sixteenth novel by British author, Louise Candlish. When his wife’s activist group succeeds in their campaign to get a local walking trail reopened, Alex Parker gets nervous. Even though he and Beth have only lived in Silver Vale for ten years, he knows a lot more than he’s letting on about the murder that happened twenty-five years earlier, and he’s worried what might be unearthed if someone starts digging. Avoiding having his photo appear in the media is also a priority. Candlish is largely known for her books, which can be classified as emotional dramas or maybe at other times travel romance stories. They are also frequently set in exotic locations from all over the world. This is where characters may live very differently from the way that they conduct themselves when they are at home! Bestselling author Louise Candlish's latest novel, The Heights, is a book within a book, as well as a family drama. The protagonist, Ellen Saint, is a participant in a writing seminar, drafting a memoir. As the chapters of Ellen's story unfold, they are interspersed with excerpts about it from a feature in the Sunday Times, the reporter's commentary adding interesting color to the tale.Many authors can write an entertaining story but few seem able to deliver a satisfying conclusion. Never a problem for this author who nails it every time! Ellen Saint is so full of hate that it overshadows everything in her life. She has one mission and that is to kill a man she thought was already dead. Ellen is blind to anything other than killing Kieran Watts. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Simon & Schuster Australia via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of The Heights by Louise Candlish. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions. Tense, provocative and devastatingly powerful. I loved Our House but I think The Heights might be even better' -- TM Logan