{"id":52065,"date":"2024-06-06T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=52065"},"modified":"2024-05-29T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:21:20","slug":"the-manor-house-by-gilly-macmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-manor-house-by-gilly-macmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manor House by Gilly MacMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Manor House by Gilly MacMillan<\/a><\/strong> transports the reader to a remote enclave in the English country side where two couples live vastly different lives in MacMillan’s latest psychological thriller.\u00a0 Tom and Nicole have purchased land and built their dream house, courtesy of a lottery win.\u00a0 Their closest neighbors, Sasha and Olly, live close by on an adjoining property in a stately manor, but all is not what it seems. When the ultimate tragedy occurs, the truth begins to trickle out slowly followed by a deluge.<\/p>\n

After returning from a morning at the county fair, newly minted millionaire Nicole is shocked to find her husband floating in the couple’s pool.\u00a0 In a panic she runs to the adjacent property of the Manor House for help.\u00a0 Sasha and Olly, along with their housekeeper Kitty, assist Nicole by trying to help the situation.\u00a0 Olly runs to the pool to help while Sasha and Kitty comfort Nicole.\u00a0 The worst is confirmed when Olly returns with the grim news that Tom has died.\u00a0 Nicole is left to mourn in the dream house they built and come to terms with Tom’s passing.\u00a0 She is sure it is an accident but the police think he may have been murdered.\u00a0 An unknown man has been spotted on the vast grounds over the last couple of weeks and Nicole starts to wonder if the stranger had anything to do with Tom’s death.<\/p>\n

In the Manor House on the property, Olly and Sasha have an ideal life – Olly is working on his debut novel while Sasha teaches yoga on the grounds of the home.\u00a0 The only other resident is their housekeeper, Kitty, who lives in the adjacent coach house.\u00a0 At the same time as the police continue to investigate Tom’s death, questions arise about Olly and Sasha, their past, and how they came to live at the Manor House.\u00a0 \u00a0As detectives discover more about the couple they start to put the puzzle together – where is the current owner of the Manor House, Anna,\u00a0 and how does Kitty fit in?<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed The Manor House<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and how the author wove together parallel storylines along with alternating chapters highlighting the owner of the house’s intriguing history.\u00a0 All of these combined elements make for a startling and troublesome backstory.\u00a0 I found some of the plot twists and turns to be slightly far fetched and unbelievable. but overall, this was an another enjoyable roller coaster ride from Gilly MacMillan.\u00a0 The Manor House<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has a final last twist right at the end that you won’t see coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Manor House by Gilly MacMillan transports the reader to a remote enclave in the English country side where two couples live vastly different lives in MacMillan’s latest psychological thriller.\u00a0 Tom and Nicole have purchased land and built their dream house, courtesy of a lottery win.\u00a0 Their closest neighbors, Sasha[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,8],"tags":[8523,8522,4317,5495,8188,1587,5354],"class_list":["post-52065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-staff-picks","tag-drowning","tag-grifters","tag-homeowners","tag-mistaken-identity","tag-mysterious-death","tag-psychological-thriller","tag-wealthy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-dxL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52065"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52474,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52065\/revisions\/52474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}