This book has you gripped from the first page. Twists and turns keeps you in suspense. Sends a shiver down your spine

What a page turner of a book so many red herrings and the final twist which seemed in my mind to bring back the status quo although not honest definitely understandable and ironic. Very good book loved all the characters and their role in the downfall or maybe the redemption.

A normal situation turns into a nightmare.

Elle is a successful author who takes a two-week break in France and lets out her beautiful cliff-top house in Cornwall while she is away. On her return all appears to be as she left it – but is it? The joy of getting back soon turns to terror, as a series of discoveries convince her that all is far from normal.

Elle lives alone after a breakdown in her marriage and this, combined with her being a writer, means she already has a nervous disposition. Has this led to an over-stimulated imagination? As the unsettling events continue, Elle feels she is losing control of her life. Is it paranoia, or is she actually under mental attack? Secret messages are discovered. There are references to incidents in her past. Someone threatens ‘she has let them in’ and then starts to play with her mind.

She is already under pressure to meet a deadline with her second novel and now finds she is suffering from ‘writer’s block’. Insomnia sets in as the incidents become more frequent and more dangerous until in the end, they reach a terrifying climax.

There are few suspects, although the role of social media is questioned. Have Elle’s Facebook revelations been too revealing? Should there be a line between gaining publicity for her writing and letting people into her private life? Has she now got a Facebook stalker? These are all interesting questions, and this thriller is certainly written with pace and suspense which makes it a page-turner. The only problem is with Elle herself, who seems to be a rather selfish and spoilt character, given to endless soul-searching. Her fears become somewhat repetitive and irritating, although the twists and turns of the plot certainly keep the story moving.

This is a good read for those who like their psychological thrillers to be really chilling.

Jane

Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.

This is the story Of Elle Fielding an author who following the international success of her first novel gained enough wealth to make her dream of buying an old cliff top property in Cornwall a reality. As a child, her mother, sister and herself had spent holidays on the beach below.
In the rebuild she has created a stunning home featuring her writing room at the top of the house overlooking the cliff edge to the beach below.
Perfect ?
Seems not, the second novel she has already received an advance on is eluding her . Writers block and insomnia mean meeting the deadline is not coming easily.
Money running short she accepts an invite to a writers workshop in France and decides to let her property on Airbnb whilst she is away.
On her return things are not right. She can`t put her finger on it exactly but her home no longer feels like her own.
Is it her imagination or is someone watching her, moving her things ? Or is it paranoia?
This is one creepy tale that had me hooked, the twists, the settings and characters involved add to the sinister tale.
The final twist completes what is a very believable psychological thriller.
I Loved it!
Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins for the chance to read this as an ARC.

This book has more twists and turns than a rollercoaster at a theme park and I absolutely loved it. Every character is well thought out and I found myself doubting/suspecting everyone. Who’s Joanna? Is Luke really seeking revenge? Who’s lying? Who’s telling the truth? How well do you really know those closest to us? I cannot recommend this enough!

Ellie lives in Cornwall in her dream house but without her husband. Her sister and her husband and son live nearby.
Ellie is an author with a deadline for her second book. She goes to France for a week renting out her house.
When she returns she senses something has changed within the house. The room she left locked, her writing room, seems to have been entered. Is she imagining it? Is someone watching her or is it paranoia?
As her life collapses around her who is out to get here and why.
This is a real page turner which will keep you guessing to the very last page. Brilliant.
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I would like to thank HarperCollins UK and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘You Let Me In’ by Lucy Clarke in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Elle Fielding is the writer of a best-seller and has a deadline to complete her second novel. During a two-week absence Elle lets her house in Cornwall but on her return she’s convinced the house feels different, as if it’s no longer hers, and believes that someone has a key and is letting themselves in. Has someone been going through her belongings and discovered her secrets or is it her overactive imagination?
‘You Let Me In’ is a psychological thriller with an interesting and clever plot and although I found it hard to empathise with the characters at times I enjoyed reading it. I was surprised Elle didn’t think to change the locks to her house if she thought someone had a key and was getting in. It took me a while to get into the story which was a bit slow at the beginning but as I continued I gradually became engrossed as the plot became scary and sinister. There were twists and turns, characters who I thought could be involved, but when I got to the end I was shocked by the outcome which wasn’t what I’d expected.

So I thought - 400 odd pages, read 100 pages a day and finish in four days. Yeah, right! Be prepared for You Let Me In to grip you from the get go. I could not put this down - well, had to to get some sleep - finished in two sittings - breathless! Wow! An author, Lucy Clarke, writing about an author, Elle Fielding. An internationally recognised and highly successful author based on the publication of her first book. Fame, wealth and enough income to buy a cliff-top property in Cornwall and rebuild a stunning home with beautiful sea views. Sounds good, huh? And Elle is busy writing her second book - oh dear - insomnia, writer's block and a publication deadline to meet. And if she doesn't her world will come collapsing down...

"Have a sense of how your story will end - but allow yourself to step into your character's shoes and be surprised." Author Elle Fielding.

Sounds good. But Elle needs to bolster her income to cover her mortgage and is persuaded to rent her house through Airbnb for a fortnight whilst she attends a book function in France. That sent an early shiver down my spine. Heard too many tales of woe about such rentals. Now, when Elle returns, watch out for the suspense to start. It will creep under your skin. Menace abounds in spades. Who the hell has been in Elle's house? Small events build to something sinister. Does her sister Fiona know anything about these events? After all it was her who welcomed the Airbnb renters. Didn't she?

I cannot say much more about the plot without spoiling too much. But I must say this. You Let Me In has one of the most unexpected twists I have ever read. But wait, a final and further outrageous twist that left me completely blindsided!

Lucy Clarke has written an absolute cracker, one of my best reads this year and highly recommended.

My thanks to HarperCollins publishers, NetGalley and Lucy Clarke for my ARC.

Elle has just returned from a 2 week business trip to France the international best selling author of one book so far has to knuckle down to finish her second before a delayed deadline or risk the financial implementations. Whilst away she rents out here grand house in Cornwall on the website Airbnb. Coming home something seems wrong and then she cuts her foot on some glass in his plush carpeted bedroom in front of her mirror, and the story begins.
Is everything just in her imagination or is there something wrong, Elle suffers from insomnia and is a author so needs to let her imagination free to write her books has it crept into her real world as well as her Sister Fiona suggests. There are a few storylines running through the story, her divorce from the real love of her life, a tale from when she was at uni in Cardiff thats still lives engraved in her head, and who is the author of the previous chapters. This book is written as the index tells you with the bulk of a chapter telling Elle's story and at the end some information entitled previously which gives valuable clues, or ending the ending is from a time further back from 2003 -2004. This will make a lot more sense when you read this amazing book,
Lucy Clarke is a incredible author who has the ability to hook you early on in her books and keep you guessing helped by the many twists that come and change your thinking some are very dark and all very plausible which not all writers achieve. I have not read one bad book from Lucy in fact they have all been special in my opinion that is. I'm very grateful to HarperFiction and NetGalley for this edition, and hope you enjoy it as much as I have

What a riveting thriller; so much so that I nearly missed my station stop. It is seriously atmospheric and decidedly creepy with a brilliant ending. In addition, you almost get two stories for the price of one.

Elle has published a novel which has become a best seller. Her advance and royalties have allowed her to create the house of her dreams in Cornwall close to her sister, her husband and her little boy. She is now under enormous pressure to write her next book and after a writers’ retreat in France, during which she let out her house through Airbnb, she is back and struggling to write. Her house doesn’t feel the same since she returned and then some very odd things begin to happen.

I rattled through this novel desperate to know what was going to happen next. The hairs on the back of my neck have only just settled down! A highly recommended read.

I received a complimentary copy of the book from NetGalley and publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thank you.

Elle Fielding is the author of a wildly successful first novel - successful enough to bring the money rolling in to buy her clifftop house in Cornwall and totally refurbish it. Deadline day for the second of her two-book deal is looming, though, and it seems Elle spends more time posting carefully posed pictures of notebooks and pencils on Facebook than she does actually working on her novel. And the money’s starting to run out.

When Elle takes on a fortnight’s teaching at an aspiring writers’ workshop in France, she decides to rent out her house via Airbnb. (Mistake.) When she returns, it becomes apparent that things are, in various small ways, not quite right. As her unease mounts, Elle begins to suspect everyone around her - the neighbour who bears a grudge, the librarian who looks at her strangely, her sister’s husband, her own ex-husband. Who has been in Elle’s house in her absence, and what exactly are they trying to achieve?

I don’t think I’ve read a Lucy Clarke novel before, but I enjoyed this a lot; it’s very well written, atmospheric and kept me guessing throughout. I imagine the insights into the publishing industry are accurate too, though I don’t suppose most first time authors probably have quite as remunerative an experience as Elle. Although I had various theories, the ending was a surprise.

Many thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to read You Let Me In in exchange for an honest review.

Be careful who you let in....

Oooh, the first book I've read by this author.- (Cliche alert) - but it won't be the last. A story of beautiful detail and wonderful descriptions of the Cornish coast. A tangled plot of terrible lies and suspicion. What does a writer do next when her debut is an international best seller but her life is falling apart? No spoilers but this is a marvellous, enthralling book that I galloped through desperate to find out what? Who? Why?

I've read all of this author's books and this one is just as gripping. It's a good psychological thriller with a twist, and although I did guess it the story it is well written and a good holiday read.

An intriguing thriller but rather disappointing in comparison to Lucy Clarke's others. I hope in future she goes back to the kind of vivid travel-based mystery narratives she has written in the past. This is more of a standard psychological thriller of the type that seems to be ten a penny these days. That said it is a decent read and I'm sure it will sell well.

I'm attributing the past few nights disturbed sleep to my foolish decision to read this in bed and even more foolishly stopping at sections that were about to hook me in further, as had I done that then I would never have even attempted sleep and instead would have been reading all night.

The book is rather unsettling and at times I wasn't really sure what was reality, what was past and what was another character, or if some of this was a book within a book as Elle is an author.

This is the second psychological thriller I've read in a few weeks with books and authors at the forefront, and I just wish I had put more distance between them so I could distinguish the stories more clearly in my mind.

That aside this is a book definitely got under my skin, I was eager to keep returning to reading to it. I wasn't entirely sure who was causing the unease but the final reveal somehow didn't surprise me, although a few of the other twists did.

The writing is rather evocative and I really did wonder if Elle was losing her mind at points every occurence of something weird also had a potentially plausible explanation, which added to the intrigue. I was very curious throughout as to what Elle was hiding, and the story is certainly a bit creepy.

Unfortunately at the end of the day I have much preferred the authors previous books, and feel this just didn't hit the mark properly for me - but given I can be hit and miss with the genre, doesn't necessarily mean you will have the same reaction to it.

Thank you to Harper and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

A gripping, psychological thriller that will keep you guessing right until the end.
Thank you to NetGalley and the author for the ARC.

I’ve always enjoyed books from this author, this time I had no clue about the plot so I went in with no expectation and I loved it – a pacy psychological thriller with a totally brilliant ending that I really didn’t see coming – at least not in its entirety. That was super cool.

Honestly I’m tempted to say nothing at all about plot but I will caution that if you use AirBnB you might want to tread carefully…Also I think I’ll have to give a little away to tell you why it worked so well.

Elle was an excellent character to follow along with and I really enjoyed the underneath of it all.  I think Lucy Clarke has definitely brought the benefit of experience in creating a writer character following up her first extremely popular novel with a 2nd book that isn’t coming easy..although I hope not all Elle’s experiences come from reality as she’s also facing down an unknown intruder…

The story twists in on itself so beautifully, it is occasionally very creepy and also has the benefit of a beautifully described Cornish setting. It flows out, with some lovely touches for those of us who have read this author before and ultimately it was a right proper page turner that goes in unexpected directions.

A great read. One of the best in this genre I’ve had for a while.

Recommend.

I have been so lucky with books recently and this one is no exception. I don’t usually enjoy books set in Cornwall . I live here and don’t enjoy the romanticism surrounding many authors’ depictions but this book didn’t focus on this side of the land, just used the sea as a backdrop; sometimes brooding and darkly dangerous, other times beautiful and enticing.
The story of an author struggling with deadlines, insomnia and a dark secret in her past, I was enthralled until the rather weak ending... only to discover the true finale was a beautifuly ironic twist in the tale

Fantastic book , I really enjoyed it . I’m not going to give away the plot but I would highly recommend it and I will be picking up more novels from this writer in future

This is a really, really good read.

It's a story about an author who is living alone in an isolated house in Cornwall and is told from 3 perspectives; the author now / the author a good few years ago / the person who is stalking her. It's creepy, well written and keeps you guessing and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I particularly liked the lead characters experience of being a writer, her frustrations and the chapters headed with her 'thoughts for the day'. However, gosh, but she's irritating at times!

Overall I found it such a good story, very well told and despite my guessing and re-guessing the ending, it still got me! I'll definitely be looking out for this author in future.

Many thanks to HarperCollins and Netgalley for my ARC.