Through The Wall by Caroline Corcoran
Published by Avon Books
October 2019
Lexie’s got the perfect life. And someone else wants it…
Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and secure in it – and loved, thanks to her boyfriend Tom.
But recently, something’s not been quite right. A book out of place. A wardrobe door left open. A set of keys going missing…
Tom thinks Lexie’s going mad – but then, he’s away more often than he’s at home nowadays, so he wouldn’t understand.
Tom and Lexie have a flat in a shared building in London. They're doing pretty well because Tom's parents pay for it, so Lexie can concentrate on her freelance work and on getting pregnant which is her main focus. They are neighbours with Harriet, a woman who writes musicals and spends much of her time either playing the piano or having raucous late-night parties. The three have never actually met. One day Harriet spots Tom getting into the communal lift - her heart skips a beat, he suddenly reminds her of Luke, her ex-fiance and Harriet is smitten. Through the walls she can hear that Lexie and Tom are having some troubles, maybe her neighbours aren't living quite the perfect life that she thought they were; maybe Tom wants someone else?!
Harriet decides to focus on hooking Tom, she contacts him at work pretending to be someone else and soon starts flirting with him online. Meanwhile Lexie is getting more and more despondent about having a baby, things aren't going well, and Tom, well Tom seems distant, less interested in her. With secret phone calls and emails, and certain items being discovered in the flat that have no place in being there, Lexie soon convinces herself that her boyfriend is having an affair - but with whom?
Through The Wall reminded me at times of the 90s film thriller Single White Female which in itself is no bad thing (I love that film) but I did feel at times that the middle of the story dragged and I wanted to know which way the book was going to go and which female was going to come out on top. Harriet has a past - this much is hinted at throughout the opening part of the book, but what did she do when her and Luke split up that makes her so dangerous? I was itching to find out.
Having read this I'm only thankful I don't have neighbours! Through The Wall is out now in paperback and at the time of writing, is a bargain 99p on Amazon Kindle!
Happy Reading
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