We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reader’s guide for The Turn of the Key includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty-at least not of murder-but somebody is.įull of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman.

It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the home’s cameras, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the dark side of technology. “This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga of murder and deception.” - Entertainment Weeklyįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” -Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On “A superb suspense writer…Brava, Ruth Ware.

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