Sunday on Zenda. Sunday of great hits. Sunday, in this case, features the novel The Neighbours Across the Street (Suma), by Nicole Trope, a domestic thriller that has sold more than 500,000 copies. This Australian author went to university to study Law, but she realized her mistake when she did poorly on her first class assignment because, as her professor noted: “There was no need to tell a story.”
In the publisher’s own words: “Everyone wants to live on Hogarth Street, with its trees and white little houses, and the Wests have settled in perfectly. Katherine and John seem utterly in love, and their five-year-old twins are absolutely adorable.
But soon the neighbors begin to notice something… Why do the Wests never want to attend barbecues? Why do they reject every offer to have someone babysit the children? Why, when you knock on their door, do they greet you outside rather than inviting you in? All families have secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to blow open. While tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, one by one, the people who went to such lengths to welcome the Wests start to understand… Hogarth Street will never be the same again.”
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Author: Nicole Trope. Title: The Neighbours Across the Street. Publisher: Suma. Sales: Todostuslibros.