In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, 2017
In a relentless search for answers, a disgraced journalist finds herself trapped in a sprawling, isolated estate where reality feels fragile.
Ruth Ware
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While this novel was initially published as a standalone piece of fiction, Ruth Ware frequently cites the British landscape and specific architectural styles of the 1990s as key influences on her settings.
When the light feels like a trap, the darkness is watching.
The night was drawing in, and the house felt more and more like a glass cage, blasting its light blindly out into the dusk, like a lantern in the dark. I imagined a thousand moths circling and shivering, drawn inexorably to its glow, only to perish against the cold inhospitable glass. Books by Ruth Ware
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