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Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone. Prim Alice and the cynical Sandra, long dead former residents bound to the house, linger within its claustrophobic walls. Jostling for space, memory, and supremacy, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself-in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a light bulb. The living and dead are each haunted by painful truths that will soon surface with explosive force. When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide-with cataclysmic results.
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I did not dislike this book but it was not my favorite. I gave it three stars because the idea of a home having ghosts from the past who are actively dealing with their past trauma and watching the current tenants deal with their trauma was a very interesting concept.
The entire book is from several points of view, from characters that are living to characters that are ghosts. We get the stories of each character (alive or dead) and we watch them come to grips with their past and the decisions they each made in life that has lead them to their current situations. Everything is neatly wrapped up in the end but the pace was very slow and it took me some time to finally get into this book.
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