You Were in the House

About this book

Nell Rooke works at the Ayle Sound Archive in Marrenford Reach, turning old voices into exact transcripts. Fourteen years after her sister Etta drowned during a catastrophic tide, a newly donated cassette contradicts the account Nell, her husband and her mother have repeated ever since. When the audio file disappears, a transcript is retyped and a catalogue card vanishes, Nell follows the surviving evidence through altered tapes, missing records, a fuel receipt, a scar and the sentences her family gave her. A first-person psychological thriller about memory, kindness, responsibility and the courage required to certify a true copy.