A House Without Windows By: Stevie Turner

Title:  A House Without Windows
Author: Stevie Turner
Publisher:  S.T.
Reviewed By:  Arlena Dean
Rating: 4
Review:

"A House Without Windows" by Stevie Turner....

What is this novel about?

"Newly-pregnant Dr Beth Nichols had no idea she was being stalked by ex-patient Edwin Evans as she made her way home one evening after a late shift. After being anaesthetized she woke up in Edwin’s basement, held against her will, and eventually giving birth there without medical help.

The story is written from different perspectives; from Beth’s 9 year old daughter Amy who is born in captivity, from Beth herself, now pregnant with Edwin’s baby, from her fiancée Liam, and 16 years later from her son Joss and his father Edwin.

When Beth escapes, the Press get hold of the story and Beth and Amy have their photo in the newspaper. Liam (who has made another life for himself back in his homeland of Canada with his new partner Patty and their son Toby) is shocked to see the photo, thinking Beth had been murdered years before.

Liam must make the difficult choice of either meeting up with Beth again and getting to know his daughter, or staying where he is in Toronto.

The story then runs ahead to the point where Joss finds out who his real father is, now a patient in a secure mental hospital. Joss wants to get to know him, and makes a journey against his mother’s wishes to see his real father. However, the much-anticipated meeting does not go quite to plan; Edwin still seems obsessed with Beth, and Joss feels unloved and unwanted. He makes the mistake of telling Edwin where the family are living, and when Edwin is eventually released he comes looking to claim Beth back again, the only woman he has ever loved."

What I  got from the read....

Wow, this was really some read that this author presented involving some many characters with such
a story that in the end was  well blended together giving the reader a well written read.  It is my understanding that  there was a real story taken from events that had happened in Lambeth London dealing with three women that had been held captive for thirty some years.  This author in his novel "A House Without Windows"  really did some research to give the readers a inside version of what happened to Dr. Beth Nichols, her daughter and son, Joss, her former boyfriend Liam and Edwin Evans.  Be prepared for a read that is full of complexed emotions, physical and psychological issues  as this author details a little of it all. "A House Without Windows" will be hard to put down once you start reading it because it will keep your attention from the start to the finish.  I don't want to give any of this story away other than to say pick up this good read to see how this author brings this story line all out. Believe me, it will be some read.   If you a in for a good drama, thriller, and  mystery then I would recommend this novel to you.