Interesting idea this. When you Airbnb your house, can you really trust who has been wandering around your most intimate space?
Best-selling author Elle Fielding decides to Airbnb her gorgeous clifftop house in Cornwall, to get a bit of cash because she’s spent so much money having the building work done. But the reality is she has no idea who has been in her house – which is so obvious it’s startling in a way.
When she returns odd stuff starts to happen, things are missing or out of place, and someone has been through her most private things. What’s more, Elle begins to worry that her sharing on social media has made her vulnerable. Is it an obsessed fan, or someone from her past life? Or perhaps she is imagining it all, under the burden of trying to finish her second book to deadline, and coping with her broken relationship.
Lucy Clarke writes well and I believed in her characters, Elle and her slightly bossy sister Fiona, and the life she has made for herself in Cornwall. Her increasing anxiety also seems natural and I found myself wondering why on earth anybody would invite complete strangers into their home to stay while they weren’t there. She creates a strong sense of place, on the Cornish coast, which made me want to take a beach walk, or stand on a windy clifftop.
Altogether, this book is atmospheric and worth a read.
