Ruth Kelly
Autor de The Little Vineyard in Provence
Obras de Ruth Kelly
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Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Miembros
- 39
- Popularidad
- #376,657
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1
The Escape follows Adele and Jack. Adele is an aspiring influencer but living on a housing estate and working in a hotel doesn't quite do it for her. She wants more and on a whim posts a video asking for crowdfunding to buy a run-down French chateau. Not everyone is behind her but it only takes one enigmatic donor and she has her dream home. It's when Erin, Adele's sister, stops hearing from her and goes to France to find out what's happened that it becomes apparent that all is not what it seems.
A small town enclosed community, a sprawling chateau, secrets, rules, mysterious gardeners. It's all in The Escape and I found it hard to put down. It seemed pretty clear that nothing was quite what Adele and Jack were expecting but as the story unravelled it took me on a sinister and unexpected journey into depravation and affluence. It's all very well being an influencer, but that often means laying your life wide open for all to see and that can be a very dangerous thing to do, as Adele soon finds out.
Ruth Kelly is now an author whose books I will pick up without knowing anything about them. She writes very twisty stories which enthral me and I've loved the focus on how social media and reality shows can bring anyone their fifteen minutes of fame. I'm excited for what comes next from this talented writer. In the meantime, I heartily recommend The Escape which is dark, original and totally gripping.… (más)