My latest book is The Red House. It’s mainly written from the point of view of a young woman, Eve, who survived (and witnessed) a family annihilation when she was just five years old. She saw her fifteen-year-old brother, who she adored, murder her mother, father, and baby brother.
Joseph, the murderer, stole his father’s car and later that night crashed into a tree and went into a coma, which he’s been in ever since, looked after by his grandmother.
We find Eve twenty years after the murder, discovering that her grandmother is dying and wants Eve to take over the care of her comatose brother. Eve can’t understand why her grandmother would ask Eve to do this, or indeed why her grandmother has cared for the person who did such a terrible thing.
Eve starts to suspect she got
