Our House is an intriguing book with a very original plot. As I read this book I started to think what if I came home and found someone else had moved in to my house! Well, this is exactly what happened to Fi. This novel recounts the story of the two main characters Fi and Bram through either their personal podcast or a letter. I really liked this as it gave you a greater insight into the characters.
This book is filled with twists and unexpected turns, which keep you turning page after page. Our House is also about friendship and how far you would go to help a friend in need…
The ending was very clever and linked in with the rest of the book with multiply events spiralling out of control but it still had me shouting ‘Nooo!!’
A gripping read and would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes a good thriller.
This is my first read on Net Galley and can’t wait to browse through some more titles. Thank you.

Clever and well written this takes you on a journey of secrets and deceit where Fiona discovers she really doesn’t know her husband. A compelling story which has plenty of twists with a clever conclusion.
Just when you hope that at least someone gets a happy ending, an email changes everything and makes you shiver with horror.

Twisty and gripping read from one of my favourite authors. A must read for an psychological fiction fan. Unmissable!

Louise Candlish is one of my fev authors, she writes great books and I was certain this one would be the same....it was

The book starts with Fi arriving home earlier than she expected and being greeted with the sight of removal vans and a new family arriving at ‘her’ home......well it was her home the day before...the new ‘owners’ have their correct legal paperwork.....then ( without giving any spoilers ) the story starts!!! And what a story..fascinating and riveting and told in the way the author does best with wonderful
descriptive prose and characters that immediately ‘fit’ with the story
The story is told,unusually, via the 2 lead characters and their stories up to and then past the day of Fi arriving home to the removal vans and done so via a crime programme’s web site which at the end of each chapter gives ‘viewers’ their chance to comment, a real unique way of telling the story and it works, 100% works
A truly intriguing book that had me ‘on edge’ in a good way and wanting to find out what was going to happen and just when I thought I had worked it out the book took a totally different turn and ending
Lovers of Lousie Candlish will adore this book and newcomers to her work will hunt down her other books
An unusual and wonderful book that will stay with you long after reading
10/10
5 stars

It is the second book by Louise Candlish I have read and this one was slightly better. Again it is set in a well to do suburban London street and it deals with betrayals and infidelity. It is about a couple, Fiona and Bram, who have a beautiful house and two children. They had recently separated because of Fiona catching Bram with another woman. To keep the lovely and expensive house and not to disrupt the children, they decide on a strange arrangement.
Everything works ok until Fiona interrupts a romantic weekend with her new lover to go back home to find something that was needed at work when she found that another family has moved in. Squatters or what else?
kept my attention as I wanted to find out what was going on. Things are not definitely what they seem but this is what happens when you cover a deception with a lie and then a lie with a deception. Things can get completely out of hand. A few twists towards the end make the story even more interesting. A pleasant read for a rainy weekend.

A January morning, Fi Lawson is on her way home when she sees a van parked right outside her house. Her first thought is that finally her neighbours must have sold their house after months on the market. But the closer she gets, the more she realizes that the men are moving furniture and boxes not into the neighbours’ house, but right inside her beloved house. And when she gets there a woman claims that she and her husband just bought the house from her husband. But Fi knows nothing about the sale of her house. And why her husband is not answering her phone? Where are all their things? Where are their sons?

The plot is very character-driven with the characters leading the narrative. From present time, the narration switch a few months back as Fi and her husband Bram, each tell their side of their story. Fi tells her story on Victim, a podcast in which victims of a crime recount their sad stories. I don’t listen to podcasts (although I really think I am going to start now) but I love this type of feature in books and I especially enjoyed the twits and comments from listeners, each with their opinions, each taking a side. Bram, on the other hand, is writing his story on a Word document in which he reveals the series of events that led to that January morning. While I found Fi a bit too self-righteous, I felt a small amount of sympathy for Bram. He likes to drink and to drive fast (not a good combination) and he made a few big mistakes followed by a series of bad choices, but he tried to make things right even as things got out of his control.

The suspense is high all the time. Just when you think that you know what is going on, something else happens that takes you completely by surprise. This is my first novel by this author (I need to catch up) but I love her style and her writing which is completely captivating. She does a great job getting into the protagonists’ minds and she perfectly portrays their feelings as the story slowly unravels.

OUR HOUSE is a gripping and immersive thriller about a broken marriage and the lies we tell to protect ourselves and the people we love and it won’t be easy to put down.

I love the way the sense of foreboding is instant when you start chapter one with the date being Friday 13th. Then your stomach starts to churn as Fi Lawson drives towards her house after a short break away and realises that the removal van parked outside is delivering all the worldly goods belonging to another family into her home. And she hasn't sold it.
I could actually imagine the scenario and how I would feel in her shoes. Especially once she has confronted the people moving in - then realises that not only all of her possessions are missing, but so are her children. Total panic sets in!
This book is the subject of nightmares and the manner in which Louise Candlish has presented it to us is pure brilliance. We have Fi's side of the story being related by the transcripts of podcasts (very 21st century!) and Bram, her ex husband, telling his side via word documents which he intends sending to his ex wife at a later date to try and explain why and how their safe, if slightly quirky, home life has been completely blown apart.
I don't think I have ever read a book which has built such an air of tension and dread as I worked my way through it, with each revelation making me scream "noooo!" at the pages as each character made decisions which could make things worse rather than better - if only they trusted and communicated with each other more then the whole scenario could have been so different.
Top class plotting and writing from Louise Candlish has put this book in my top scorers' list for 2018.
My review will feature on my blog page nearer publication date www.sandiesbookshelves.blogspot.co.uk

**4.5 STARS**

Fiona ( Fi ) Lawson lives in a very desirable London suburb, and she always gets a warm tingly feeling when she enters her street. However, on this particular beautiful winter's day she spots a removal van outside her house - but it can't possibly be her house, the house a few doors down has been on the market, it must be that one. As she reaches her house, the realisation that someone is moving their furniture in, their personal possessions, hits her like a sledge hammer, but she'll sort it out ( won't she?) it's just a ridiculous mistake surely. Well actually no it isn't a mistake, and she desperately needs to contact her estranged husband Bram - problem is, Bram is nowhere to be found, and not only that, but their two boys Harry and Leo aren't where they should be either!

Well goodness me, what a roller coaster ride of a story this is, and what avenues it takes us down as deceit becomes the major player. It isn't a thriller in the normal sense of the word, but it's gripping nevertheless. The characters speak to us through various mediums, ( Bram via Word document ) and in that respect we get to know much more about Bram's part in all this than Fi does. You know the old saying "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we set out to deceive"? Absorb that thought because this is deceit at its most profound. Add in numerous twists and turns and you've got a real winner. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

* Thank you to Netgalley and Simon and Schuster for my ARC in exchange for an honest review*

I loved the structure of this book, each party telling their side of their story in unique ways. This made the book different and addictive, even if the action which it was based around did seem a little unbelievable.

Our house by Louise Candlish was a dark disturbing story about secrets, lies, deception and fraud. Fi and her husband Bram are separated and have joint custody of their two young boys. After a trip away Fi comes home to see people moving into her house. Fi confronts these people and has been told that they are the new owners. Fi's nightmare is just beginning as she tries to track down Bram and find out what has happen to all their belongings. This thriller has quite a few twists and turns and keeps you reading to find out what's going to happen next. I would like to thank NetGalley and Simon and Schuster UK Fiction for my e-copy in exchange for an honestly review.

It’s been quite a while since a novel has had me hooked from the very start the way this one did. I was intrigued by the premise – a woman returns to her London home to find strangers moving into it, even though she hasn’t sold it – and I was drawn instantaneously into Fi and Bram’s world, into their messy marriage, into the layers of lies and deceit that led to this seemingly impossible event.

I loved the way Candlish told the story, utilising both of the central characters' voices (Bram in a Word document he’s writing and Fi via a podcast she appears on to tell her story) and also casting them in third person. I felt like I was being shown something complex from a variety of angles, a crystal being turned until a new side caught the light.

This is my first experience of reading Candlish, but I’ve already bought another of her novels. It’s an enviable skill, that ability to tell a story so well, to keep the reader turning pages when she should be sleeping. There wasn’t a single point at which my interest fell away, and Candlish kept surprising me over and over, right to the end.

I am new to Louise Candlish’s books so I cannot compare Our House to any of her other books but I certainly liked this one. It is not full of twists and turns and I thought Fi a bit of a weak character but I liked the way the story is told, seen from the viewpoint of the two main characters.

Thank you NetGalley for this book.

Couldn’t put this down, loved the way the story kept twisting and couldn’t believe the ending!

I’m a big fan of Louise Candlish! Her intricately detailed and well written family dramas are always breathtakingly dark and full of relatable domestic dilemmas. As soon as I read the blurb for this one I knew that I HAD TO READ IT! It’s such a fascinating and intriguing idea for a novel that one day you come home to find someone new moving into your house but you don’t know them and you certainly haven’t sold it to them!

Our House has one of the most addictive starts I’ve read for ages. I was desperate to know what had happened for Fi Lawson to have lost her house! Who is the woman in the house saying that her and her husband have just completed on their new home? They have moved all their furniture in so where are Fi’s belongings? But more importantly, where are her husband and children? Her fear was palpable as she started to panic, looking for possible reasons to explain the horrifying predicament she has found herself in. Has she lost her beautiful home forever?

Having worked for a number of years as an estate agent I got ahead of myself trying to work out the possibilities here. Was it an illegal sale? How could that possibly work with all the checks that have to be made to prevent money laundering etc. Is Fi confused? She’s been having a difficult time in her marriage but they have both been handling things like the adults that they are. I was spinning in circles trying to work out the truth as the plot twisted and turned its way towards its dramatic conclusion.

To begin with though I did find the way the plot progressed a little confusing but as it progressed I got used to the way it jumped around and settled into the storyline. There is the discovery of the new couple in Fi and Brams home but there are also two other very different and very distinctive styles of narrative as both Fi and her husband Bram give their side of the story. The use of social media gave Our House a contemporary vibe and overall the whole book felt incredibly current and relevant.

If you like dark domestic dramas with a sting in the tail then you’re going to love this one!

Nothing majorly happens but it was a well written, cleverly thought out plot which kept me turning the pages. Good ending as well, worth a read.

Another brilliant book from Louise Candlish, with the story told from Bram and Fiona's perspectives. I did however think it ended quite suddenly, but still a great read

I absolutely loved the concept of this book. It's written in multiple ways; present storyline, as told by Fi and as told by Bram. It flips between the three without being too complicated. Fi arrives home to find a new family moving into her home. Confused, she confronts the family who say that they've bought the house fair and square. The book then goes back in time to the lead up to this moment. It's thrilling, shocking and overall a fantastic read once. Really enjoyed this

It’s been a long time since I have read a book that had me this excited. Totally different from any other book. Fi comes home to find another couple moving into her home and all her belongings gone. The book is written from fi perspective and from bram’s. So many twists and turns along the way. The book did seem to come to a sudden end and left me wanting to know more. Amazing read

Reading The House was a refreshing change from books I have read in the past. The way the story was told from different perspective was interesting and kept me guessing right until the end. As Fi arrives home one day she finds strangers in her house who say they have bought it. But how? And where is her husband and children? We go back a few months to the beginning of the end as we learn how Fi's house was sold out from underneath her and the consequences that led to the end.
I found the ending a little abrupt but the twist was very subtle and cleverly done.

Absolutely brilliant. British domestic noir is on fire this year and OUR HOUSE is sure to stand out among the packed field of great novels. Highly recommend.