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2000s: A father calls his fractured family home for one last visit…
A House Full of Secrets
What you need to know before your trail
An invitation to visit Niall’s childhood home is too good an opportunity for Vikki to pass up. This is the chance she’s been waiting for to get closer to her friend, and to meet the family he’s always been so cryptic about.
But when Vikki arrives at the beautiful but remote Lynes Glen on Ireland’s west coast, and finally meets Niall’s estranged brother Alex and his overbearing sister Lainey, she realises that this reunion will be far from heart-warming.
As Vikki fails to convince any of them that she saw a mysterious woman at the lake – off-limits since a tragic accident – strange and sinister incidents begin to happen at the Blake family home. What secrets are they keeping? And why exactly did Niall ask Vikki to join him for the weekend?
Travel Guide
Ireland
Lynes Glen
IT might sound like an idyllic place but it’s fictional and judging by what goes on inside during the weekend described in the book, you’ll be pleased that it’s not real after all.
This is the weekend the house is opened up:
Where prisms of sunlight pierce the leafy canopy, clumps of untrammeled nettles, tumbleweed and briars thrust through cracks i the forest floor. It’s as if nature has conspired to prevent me or anyone else from trespassing, in collusion with the crude-looking, crumbling Danger: Keep Out’ sign swaying against a tree truck.
The house where they are all gathered:
From the front of the house, the word stretches away, full of a raw, desolate beauty, an unspoiled panorama of stone-walled fields, gorse-covered hills and glinting streams. It’s patchwork of quilt of green , purple and brown granite an flecks of slate, where shadows dissolve into sunlight and clouds chase their reflections across to the sea.
The landscape and the storm which is coming
As the family gather in Lynes Glen this early September afternoon, everything appears to be calm and peaceful
A storm is coming. It’s seething out in the Atlantic, gathered strength before it hurls itself onto this remote glen in a far western corner of Ireland, expected to hit landfall on Saturday evening.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: A House Full of Secrets
Destination : Ireland Author/Guide: Zoe Miller Departure Time: 2000s
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