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The Turn of the Key (2019)
By Ruth Ware
Read from February 14, 2021 to March 14, 2021.
Avg Rating: 4.00/5
Favorite Quotes
To the new nanny, my name is Katya. I am writing you this note because I wanted to tell you to please be
“The ghosts. The ghosts wouldn’t like it.” - Maddie Elincourt
“People go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping long enough.” - Maddie Elincourt
Still, though, it left an odd sense of vulnerability--the way the foursquare front looked so neat and untouched, while at the back it had been ripped open, exposing all the house’s insides. Like a patient who looked well enough above their clothes, but lift their shirt you would find their wounds had been left unstitched, bleeding out.
But she had missed, by just a few weeks, the possibility of being embroiled in scandal. What future was there for a nanny whose child had died in her care, after all? A very bleak one indeed. - Rachel Gerhardt