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Grace is frantic and considers putting off the wedding but Jack convinces her that while Millie won't be able to attend the wedding, she is otherwise just fine.
Soon their family will grow when Millie, Grace’s little sister who has Down’s syndrome will come to live with them. A. Paris’s credit, she handles the style pretty elegantly, or at least better than I’ve seen in quite some time. This novel literally forced me to experience emotion just as I would during a legitimately compelling horror movie. it doesnt happen often that i am satisfied with a conclusion to a mystery/thriller, so i am marking this one as a win.But things are not as they appear as hinted at by the title, and that is the premise for this heart-in-your-throat domestic psychological thriller. It isn’t a story with historic backstory set in the 1980s or 1990s, as often occurs, but we are shown Jack and Grace before their marriage, and in the early days of the marriage, as well as a year later. In another book I read two years ago ---One of my personal favorites about two aging Gay men --after WWII --"Hide" by Matthew Griffin", there is a very tragic accident where a dog is killed --but it was 'not' intentional. Vickery's great skill lies in combining a sharp forensic eye with the ability to spot and tell stories, moving between different scales so smoothly that you can't see the joins.
It’s a sick, twisted, depraved little book with a villain that is pure evil, and yet, I couldn’t put it down. In this way, Paris builds backstory and current action into storylines that build in parallel and meet at the end.It didn't feel as though any real surprises were uncovered; it was pretty much what anyone would have expected from the introduction provided. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Later on, Millie is also the one to come up with the perfect solution for killing Jack—sleeping pills.
What Vickery illuminates, often brilliantly, always entertainingly and through a myriad of examples from many different people, are the ways in which family and gender relations were played out in Georgian England. There are many tough situations, some of which every reader will recognize from their own experience. By shifting between the revelatory rather than romantic honeymoon and Grace’s life in the present, when Jack keeps her locked in their beautiful Spring Eaton home, Paris underscores Grace’s seemingly unassailable predicament, especially with Millie soon coming to live with the couple. Tasha has all the clothes and kit a girl could want, but feels increasingly unnerved by her mother’s new boyfriend. Normally I have to force myself through bad books, and normally I’ll derive at least some pleasure between starting and finishing, even if it’s at the book’s expense.
Though Grace has promised to visit Millie in the hospital on the way to the airport for their honeymoon, Grace feels guilty that she marries without her younger sister present. I mean, there has to be some truth there given how people act when they watch the Packers play the Vikings.
Mental health lies at the core of Behind Closed Doors, from obsessive compulsion to all the tiny but clinging fears and experiences which beset our teenage years and create our subsequent self-image.
if he were more dispassionate in his predilections, maybe, but that kind of showmanship, and the way he toys with grace is so risky - she could have had a breakdown at any moment when he was parading her in front of dinner guests and blurted something out or showed a crack in her own perfection that would invite suspicion and scrutiny. But it quickly becomes apparent to the reader that everything is — no shock here — not as it appears. Actually the concept itself was quite unique, how the author pulled this story together – I guess it was only my experience with thrillers that allowed me to accidentally predict the plot. Relying on documents such as account books, journals, letters, inventories and wills, Vickery paints pictures for her readers…Vickery discusses not only the appearance in everyday life in Georgian England but also the nature of the relationships within it… Behind Closed Doors is a fascinating contribution to our understanding of the Georgian period. When Grace tells her friend, Esther, that Jack wants to stay behind and join her in Thailand in a few days so he can catch up on paperwork and sulk about his loss, Esther picks her up and takes her to the airport.
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