My original The House audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.

This was an excellent horror/ghost story which played heavily on the creepiness of human psychology as well as ghosts.
Prue and her husband Ray move into an old run down house, the first thing that Prue's been enthusiastic about since the beginning of her troubles at work. While she starts renovating this house, she tries to work through the problems she's been having at work as a professor.

This is a great example of an unreliable narrator, we know that Prue's been under a huge amount of stress and everyone around her assumes that she's losing her grasp on reality - as the story is written from her perspective, how much of her story can we take as the truth? This was my favourite part of the book, playing with the mind of the reader (listener) to decide how much to believe.

The atmosphere of the book was creepy and perfectly suspenseful but I wish that it had been longer, I was so disappointed to hear it come to an end. Initially, I was really disappointed to not know the origins of the haunting in the house and why Prue was drawn to it but an interview with the author on the title's Amazon page says:
'As for the open-ended questions, there are loads of clues woven into this story about the history of The House but they are deliberately kept in the background so as not to distract from Prue's story. In writing this, I was very much thinking about what it would be like to live in a home once owned by a serial killer whose crimes went totally undiscovered and whose victims were completely lost to time...

I was also going for a Sixth Sense kind of reveal that makes you want to go back again and look for clues. They are all there. So, if you have the inclination and time, The House bears revisiting specifically to uncover them'

So obviously, I'm going to have to go back and listen again!

Elizabeth Klett, the narrator, makes this a pleasure to do - she brings the character of Prue to life in every respect. Prue is a wonderful main character, she's troubled and struggling with every day life but her true character is an intelligent, kind and loving person who just wants to be treated with respect by those who owe it to her. Elizabeth fully embodies her vulnerability and confusion, without betraying her better nature and also keeps us guessing about the direction the story will take right until the bitter end.

Audiobook was provided for review by the author. ( )