Blog Tour: Cuckoo by Sophie Draper

Book Review: Cuckoo by Sophie Draper

When her stepmother dies unexpectedly, Caro returns to her childhood home in Derbyshire. She hadn’t seen Elizabeth in years, but the remote farmhouse offers refuge from a bad relationship, and a chance to start again.

But going through Elizabeth’s belongings unearths memories Caro would rather stay buried. In particular, the story her stepmother would tell her, about two little girls and the terrible thing they do.

As heavy snow traps Caro in the village, where her neighbours stare and whisper, Caro is forced to question why Elizabeth hated her so much, and what she was hiding. But does she really want to uncover the truth?

Caro has spent most of her adult life trying to escape her childhood and her step mother.

When a death brings her back to the house that holds so many unhappy memories, she begrudgingly comes back.

The welcome she gets from most of the village isn’t warm. There is something that every one is holding back. Things at the house are even stranger.

Cuckoo is the kind of thriller I love! I devoured it quickly wanting to know what happens.

The pace and style of writing is great. There is a gothic theme to it. The atmosphere that is created is wonderful.

I ended up second guessing myself a lot. I thought I had it sussed but then something would happen and I’d quickly settle on something else. It wouldn’t be long until that changed again. It seriously kept my interest all the way through.

At the beginning, I knew something wasn’t right. I couldn’t figure out if it was the house, the village and its inhabitants, the house or the nature of the death of her step mother. Nothing is as it seems.

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