The Well

By Catherine Chanter,

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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB READ

AN OBSERVER NEW FACE OF FICTION 2015
A HUFFINGTON POST 'ONE TO WATCH IN 2015'

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2015

'I was gripped by Catherine Chanter's The Well immediately. The beauty of her prose is riveting, the imagery…

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I find it interesting when first-person unreliable narrators pose a moral dilemma for the reader: how far we sympathise with a character who may or may not be culpable of a crime.

From the very opening of the novel, we are told, "Tonight will be my first night under house arrest." Ruth Ardingly has just been released from prison to serve out a sentence of house arrest for arson and suspected murder (after the death of her seven-year-old grandson) at her farm, The Well. Returning to The Well, Ruth must piece together the tragedy that shattered her marriage and tore…

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