Our House by Louise Candlish

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Publication Date:  April 5th 2018
Pages: 408

What would you do when you arrive home and you see a moving van in front of your house and another family moving in? Your house, that wasn't for sale and where all your stuff was in it's rightful place earlier that week? This is what happens to Fiona (Fi Lawson), the main character of Our House. 

Trinity Avenue, in a rich suburb of London has been her home for years, even after she divorced her husband Bram when she found him cheating on her, and their two young sons. And now everything seems to be gone when the movers move all the belongings of the new family into the house they just say they bought. Where are her sons? And all their stuff? And most of all..where is her ex-husband Bram? Because when she tries to call him, his phone number is no longer in service and he seems to have dissappeared without a trace.

She and Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. When she tries to unravel what happened, she finds the parts of where their lives that seemed normal on the outside, slowly turned in to a nightmare..

I had no idea before hand what to expect of this book, but I was pleasantly surprised by when I finished it! The story is well set up and it keeps you on edge till the end to what happened and why. Bram is totally the bad guy in this story. He caused a deathly car accident where a child was the victim, which is the start of all the events happening. He hides everything from Fi, even the car accident, but it isn't clear to me why he wanted to leash out to Fi and sell the house without her knowing. Just because he is a plain bad wacko I presume. The reader is also shown Bram's POV through a word document letter that allows the reader to follow along with the information Fi knows and what Bram knows to actually be happening on his end and what he is doing while Fi's live is falling apart. The ending though was a bit too open and I am sure that ending could have been wrapped up better, but besides that, I found this a very thrilling and entertaining book!