A 'Whodunnit' with a great premise that didn't quite live up the blurb on the back. Perhaps I was tired whilst reading it but I struggled to stay focused and noticed that I was being pulled to skip elements. I think that there were perhaps too many characters and at times it was hard to distinguish between them all. It does pick up around halfway through the book but perhaps not enough for this to be a book I would re-read.

"Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful, the neighbors get along, and the kids play together on weekends.

But when Darren and Jodie move into the house on the corner, they donʼt follow the rules. They blast music at all hours, begin an unsightly renovation, and run a used-car business from their yard. It doesn't take long for an all-out war to start brewing.

Then, early one Saturday, a horrific death shocks the street. As police search for witnesses, accusations start flying--and everyone has something to hide."

I have complete mixed feelings about this book.. I really love Candlish's writing style and have loved her other books, the characters are believable, the pace of the story is just right, relationships develop well - but I found the ending of Those People a little flat. It made me slightly disappointed BUT it doesn't take away the fact that all of the above positives still happen in the book! I am looking forward to any other books by this author and i would still recommend this to anyone who loves a mystery. A worthy 4 star read.

Louise Candlish is fast becoming a favourite author. She is incredibly visual and descriptive of her characters and their surroundings. Those People is a dark slow burner of a novel, the characters were realistic and mostly unlikeable.but I was eager to know what was going on and what would happen next.

Thorougly enjoyed this book and looking forward to reading more by this author.

Louise Candlish seems to be rather specialising currently in property-based dramas. Our House dealt with a situation whereby a house was sold without the owner’s knowledge; Those People describes a neighbours-from-hell scenario, whereby the comfortable middle-class residents of Lowland Gardens find themselves terrorised by a new neighbour who is emphatically Not One of Us.

Snobbery aside, Darren Booth and his partner Jodie are objectively awful, playing heavy metal at deafening volumes in the middle of the night, turning the street into a parking lot for Darren’s used car business, and aiming kicks at the neighbours’ dogs. Still, it’s hard to avoid concluding that for the other residents, “they’re just not people like us”. It’s perhaps most clearly demonstrated through the character of Ralph, who, having once been on the other side of the People Like Us divide himself, is determined to hang on to his hard won middle-class smugness.

Worst affected, though, are immediate neighbours Em and Ant and their baby Sam, suffering horribly from the non-stop noise; and Sissy over the road, whose B&B business - and her livelihood - is collapsing thanks to Darren’s effect on the neighbourhood.

With the police and the council of little help, how far will the residents go to restore peace (and house prices) on their street?

Those People was an excellent read which I really enjoyed.

I was expecting great things from this book and was really excited to get an advance copy, however I’ve been left hugely disappointed.
Louise Candlish is one of my favourite authors and I’ve loved all of her other books but I couldn’t get into this one. I kept expecting some drama and the pace to quicken but didn’t get it.
The storyline, characters and scene setting should all work but it didn’t come together for me. I’ll still read her future releases, however this is definitely not one of my favourites.

| ”Someone’s always watching” - After reading ‘Our House’, I was overwhelmed with excitement when I heard that Louise Candlish was preparing to release a new novel ‘Those People’. Lowland Way is the idyllic idea of suburbia with its grand houses, content families and a tight-knit community. That is until Darren Booth and his partner Jodie arrive and immediately begin to wreak havoc on the inhabitants of this once picture perfect street. Darren and Jodie don’t play by the rules. They blast music at all hours and run a questionable car business from their house. Inconsiderate would be an understatement for these people. They’re slowly ruining the lives of their neighbours once tranquil existence. It’s no secret that Darren and Jodie are detested by all. Then early one morning a death sends shockwaves through the street, and as the police descend on Lowland Way asking questions, it seems that everybody has something to hide. ‘Those People’ will have you gripped from the first page all the way until the very last when once again Candlish slaps you with one last twist you wont see coming. The exploration of humanity of ‘good people’ and what they’ll do when they’re driven to the brink of despair was particularly intriguing because it really makes us question the dark side of ourselves and what lengths we’ll go to, to protect the things that we love the most. With the news that Candlish’s novel ‘Our House’ is about to be adapted, it’s only a matter of time before ‘Those People’ receives the same treatment. Bravo once again for a fabulously addictive, nail-biting read.

An upmarket housing estate,family,neighbours and what happens when somebody new moved in,somebody who doesn't quite fit the mould.

Like many other readers I enjoyed Our House very much but Those People, although a clever story about neighbours, isn't as fast paced and was therefore rather disappointing.

Lowland Way, the setting of Those People, is a street where the community all know each other and each other's business. So far so good, until the neighbour from hell, Darren Booth and his girlfriend, Jodie, move in. Loud music played at all hours of the day and night, never ending building works and decrepit vehicles parked all over the street do not endear him to the residents but Darren couldn't care less. So what can his neighbours do?

The characters are all well drawn but the ending of Those People came suddenly and didn't provide a great surprise, unlike Our House. However, it's a good summer beach read.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the opportunity to read and review it.

I was really looking forward to reading this book as I absolutely loved louises previous book “our house” and was hoping that this would be similar.
Those people is about the middle class neighbours of an exclusive street in London called lowland way, where neighbours live a safe, idyllic lifestyle, even having a communal garden between two houses and a regular Sunday playday ,where vehicles are removed from the street so children can play safely and happily in the road away from their electronic devices!
However a new neighbour Darren Booth and his girlfriend Jodie move into lowland road and instantly lower the tone, with loud music, building works and decrepit vehicles in the drive and road! initially it feels like the snobby neighbours are being rather petty over the various issues that arise, however this soon escalates and takes on a more sinister and chilling aspect, this is where the book suddenly becomes more past paced and interesting as the complexities of human nature and relationships are explored with drastic consequences.
Personally I felt this book was very slow to begin with but drastically improved about a third of the way in and kept you guessing till the end!
Thank you net galley for an early copy

As I loved Louise Candlish writing and found Our House brilliant I was very excited to read our people.

The story revolves around a suburban street and the new neighbour Darren Booth who causes havoc in the once peaceful neighbourhood.

The storyline was good but I found it hard to engage with any of the characters and did find myself skipping through some of the chapters .

The author did portray the rising tensions building in the plot and although this wasn’t a favourite book of mine it did explore the complexities of nightmare neighbours.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for my chance to read this Arc in exchange for an honest review

I really enjoyed this book overall. I think some parts dragged slightly and I had to keep my head in, but it was worth it by the end. Great characters and descriptions, I could see Lowland Way vividly. Highly recommend

As someone who missed the furore over Louise's previous book Our House (I will be reading it now I’ve read this one!), I was excited to read this one & see whether it grabbed me as much as Our House did for others. I wasn’t disappointed!

Each chapter is from a different neighbour's point of view, & you learn a lot about all of the inter-relationships & tensions going on throughout the street. Personally I immediately took against most of the neighbours, but as the story unfolded I found that my initial reactions were actually perhaps in relation to the wrong people, I didn’t figure out who was responsible for what happens & had a completely different theory for most of the second half of the book, so it was quite nice to have it completely wrong & be a surprise.

I read this in almost one sitting because I had to know what was going to happen next, and I think that’s really all you need to know!

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. It certainly made me appreciate the good neighbours that I have! I love a good domestic drama where we get to nose around ordinary people's lives and find out what is really going on under the seemingly respectable surface. All the residents in this book have their own dramas going on, but when an obnoxious, disruptive couple move into their street bringing noise, mess and mayhem, they band together to try to try to get rid of them.
Really well written and quite dark at times, very enjoyable read.

Those People is typical Louise Candlish brilliant, a tale of toxic neighbours, one street brought down by one set of rather unlikable characters- but in this authors true style sometimes it's the supposed good guys whose smug attitude will make you crazy.

When Darren and Jodie move into a house on a previously united and peaceful road and promptly start a building project, a car sales lot and play their music at high levels pretty much 24 hours a day, their neighbours despair. But underneath the united front they all have another side lurking...

The story is a page turner, the inability of anyone to make Darren and Jodie into another version of themselves rankles the neighbours and leads to tragedy. The human drama is superbly done and the mystery element is ingrained into the narrative with cleverly woven layers.

I didn't like anyone in this book much. Darren and Jodie are obnoxious but so are the entitled snobbish neighbours, it made fit a rocking good story and frankly I wouldn't want to live on the same street as ANY of them.

Very good indeed. Highly entertaining. Recommended.

Great set up and she really captures the claustrophobia of living in an upper class estate, as well as the distrust of new people, and her depiction of the parents of the young baby who are suffering sleep deprivation was superb. But I thought the book lacked suspense at vital moments..

An Englishman’s home is his castle, and when it is threatened defences are deployed to try and keep it and the family inside it safe. That’s what the families on Lowland Way might say as justification for how they react to a massive threat- to the gentility of their neighbourhood, and the price of their homes- in the guise of their new neighbours. They bring the tone of the area crashing down...and something has to be done!

Events escalate. Someone dies. A murder investigation is launched but to the residents’ horror, the finger of blame doesn’t seem to be directed at the abominable neighbour. Instead each of them in turn come under suspicion for words spoken or actions taken.

There are twists. The plot engages and thickens. The characters are mostly unsympathetic but they are believable and well drawn. An entertaining, easy read and I would happily recommend it.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

After reading Our House by Louise Candlish and loving every page, I was really looking forward to reading Thos People.
On an exclusive street live lots of neighbours, everything runs smoothly until Darren Booth moves into number 1 after his aunt passes away and leaves the property to him.
Darren causes havoc on the street by leaving cars all over the place and running a second hand car business from his drive way. As he is renovating the large house, he puts up scafolding which encroaches on the neighbours property.
The rest of the street are up in arms but Darren doesn't seem to care what the other residents think of him. I'm not sure if it was becaise there were so many characters in the book, but I just didn't feel able to keep up with everything going on. I understood the plot line but I felt there was a little too much detail going on.

I was pretty excited about this Author, however this story didn't impress me. The plot was simply like watching a neighborhood brawl half heartedly.

Enjoyable and a fun read!

The story caught my eye from the moment I read the blurb, and I just knew I wanted to read this book. I was not let down and can recommend this to everyone!

I really enjoyed Louise Candish's previous book our House so I had high hopes for this title, however I didn't enjoy it nearly as much. None of the characters were particularly likeable and I found the plot convoluted. I did finish it as the author writes well and I would try another title from her, this just wasn't a favourite.