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Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling
βTo sleep on? Or to wake? This was the question facing me. To sleep, or to wake and face the reckoning, to find out what had been lost.β Although by no means an incompetent debut Before the Ruins does not offer a particularly innovative take on this subgenre (usually we have big houses, a group…
1990s, 1st pov, 20th century, Adult, Before the Ruins, British author, cheating, child abuse, class, cliques, Contemporary, domestic thriller, drama, england, female authors, Florence, friendships, gay side characters, heavy on telling, introspective, Italy, lgbtq+ side, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, manor/big house, MEMORY, missing jewels, MYSTERY, psychological, published in 2021, read in 2021, sexual assault/abuse/rape, SMALL TOWN, SUSPENSE, trauma, Victoria Gosling, Wiltshire
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