
Nora hasn’t spoken to her former best friend in the last decade.


Then out of the blue, she gets an email – an invitation to Clare’s Hen Party. In A Dark, Dark Wood is about our main character called Nora, aka Leonora who is a crime fiction writer, likes to go running and lives in Hackney. The got the impression I got from this epigraph is I may be in for a creepy read but it’s not as creepy as it sounds. In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house Īnd in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room Īnd in the dark, dark room there was a dark, dark cupboard Īnd in the dark, dark box there was a….skeleton! A weekend in a remote cottage – the perfect opportunity for Nora to reconnect with her best friend, to put the past behind her.Īnd as secrets and lies unravel, out in the dark, dark wood the past will finally catch up with Nora. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen party arrives. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back. Genre: Adult, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller This gripping thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page.Published by: Vintage, 31st December 2015 In order to uncover secrets and reveal motives, Nora must revisit parts of herself that she’d rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. Wondering not “ What happened?” but “What have I done?” she tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. But a haunting realization creeps in to the party: they are not alone in the woods.įorty-eight hours later, Nora wakes up in a hospital bed with the knowledge that someone is dead.

Leonora (Lee to some, Nora to others) is a reclusive writer, but when an old friend unexpectedly invites her to a weekend away in an eerie glass house, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Sometimes the only thing to fear…is yourself. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER
