Review of No Safe House
“As the community's secrets slowly emerge, partly through Jill and Phoebe's spying, partly through the various community members' obsessive scrutiny of each other, the reader is given the sense of a highly dysfunctional world. As spring turns to summer, the neighbourhood experiences a series of strange events that have lasting repercussions. Rats arrive in Jill's basement, drawn by the rotting sandwiches. Homes are invaded, extra-marital affairs develop, friends drift apart, and a mysterious new neighbour everyone calls 'The Walker' paces the streets in her yellow raincoat. No Safe House is an engaging study of the fear, paranoia and mystery that lurk behind the tastefully curtained windows of a middle-class neighbourhood.”
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