The Cuckoo 💀 scary.co

Always look a gift horse in the mouth.After years of infertility struggles and the death of their new-born daughter, Ian and Sally’s relationship is on the brink: she still wants a child more than anything in the world but he thinks it’s time to give up. So, when Ian inherits a remote old house in Scotland they think it’s a lifeline: Ian can change his hated job, and Sally can consider her limited options.When they move into the new home, Sally is intrigued by the identical house half a mile distant and immediately drawn to its’ sensitive owner, Annag. Ian, less keen on Annag’s ‘hippy-dippy’ nonsense, is nonetheless glad Sally has a friend, especially when he lands an overseas assignment and has to leave Sally alone.Leaving Ian at the airport, Sally drives home alone in appalling weather and discovers a small girl, half frozen, on her doorstep. She takes the lost child in overnight, intending to hand her to the authorities the next day. She never does. Instead, telling herself it’s temporary, she keeps her and says nothing, even to Ian. Annag, who has sensed something very wrong, discovers Sally’s secret and tells Sally the child is not normal. Sally refuses to listen and their relationship is soured. Sally decides to keep the child for herself and registers her at nursery school, stealing her own dead child's identity to present her as their real daughter. Given this fait accompli when he arrives home, a furious Ian can do nothing without getting Sally into serious trouble, and their relationship suffers. Both try to build bridges but it's hard, especially as, unknown to them, the child is sabotaging any accord. The child’s otherness is quickly apparent to Ian but not to a determinedly oblivious Sally so Ian, reluctantly, confides his worries to Annag. Like Sally, he rejects Annag’s theories but they slowly become friends and allies as they search to discover where the child is from and, more importantly, what she wants.Events escalate with the arrival of a dollhouse and the reopening of a boarded-up attic. As the child seeks to rewrite her flawed history, her relationship to the twin houses is revealed and Annag exposes the tragic truth; the child is dead, returned from limbo. Ian initially rejects this as impossible, but the evidence is too compelling to dispute. He and Annag have a dilemma. The child is an aberration, but does that make her evil? And if they do turn a blind eye, what might follow?It's not their decision alone. Having found what they seek in each other, Sally and the child will fight to protect their fragile world, no matter what it costs.

Release Date TBD
Author Mair Stratton
Language English
Format Paperback

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