I wasn’t even surprised when Bill turned out to be a nanny molestor. We know from the back blurb that our heroine is in jail awaiting trial for the murder of one of the girls, so the initial pages where she pleads her innocence were to be expected. Maggie: True! I have to say this book delivered one twist after another for me. Her stories are so captivating and spooky without being over the top in their creepiness. Westaway was one of my top reads of 2018, so my hopes were high for The Turn of the Key. Maggie: I love Ware’s eerie, gothic, atmospheric writing and was immediately drawn to this book based on my experiences with her past books. As time progresses and her discomfort grows, she wonders if her predecessors hadn’t been right after all: the best thing for an Elincourt nanny to do is to get out while they can.ĪAR Reviewers Maggie and Shannon read The Turn of the Key and are here to share their thoughts on the novel. Left alone with the three little girls in the secluded setting, she can’t shake the feeling that there is something very wrong in the house. And spent half the night awake trying to figure out where the mysterious noises are coming from and why her bedroom is freezing cold. She’s confident she belongs with the Elincourt family.īut the parents leave on a business trip before she’s been there even twenty-four hours – and that after an evening when she had to fend off a pass from head of the family, Bill. She’s delighted when she’s offered the post and only a little apprehensive about the fact that the last four nannies left under mysterious circumstances.
She’s warned that teenage Rhiannon can be a bit of a handful and Maddie can have an explosive personality, but these are challenges to be expected in any child minding position. The dogs are a bit wild but the three young girls – Maddie, Ellie and toddler Petra – seem sweet if a bit clingy towards their mum. Sandra Elincourt, her possible future employer, is warm, friendly and engaging. The setting is beautiful and the manor a daring blend of old world opulence and charm and new world high tech.
Upon traveling there to interview for the job, she finds a gorgeously renovated Victorian home on isolated acres within the remote Scottish moors. Sending an application to Heatherbrae House describing herself as Rowan Caine Supernanny, is the easiest decision she has ever made. The au pair position pays extremely well, is out of the city, comes with access to a car and includes room and board. The advertisement seems too good to be true. The Turn of the Key is the fifth novel by the incomparable Ruth Ware, and it tells the story of a young woman who answers a notice for employment and finds herself travelling down a dark and progressively disturbing path.
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