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The Pool: A brand new gripping novel about family and secrets Kindle Edition

by Sarah Edghill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 out of 5 stars 547 ratings
The discovery of a dead body in the pool of a French holiday home, sends tensions skyrocketing in this intense new novel from the author of The Bad Wife.

Hannah and Lizzie have never been close but, following the recent death of their mother, the sisters have agreed to put their differences to one side and go on holiday together.

But when they and their families arrive at the remote house they’ve rented in the south of France, they find a dead body in the swimming pool. The place is soon swarming with police, then reporters and photographers get hold of the story. Finally, the news spreads online, putting them at the centre of a media storm.

The sisters already have a fractious relationship, as do their teenage daughters, and both couples are hiding secrets that put their marriages under strain. Finding themselves trapped at a crime scene, anger and longstanding resentments come to the surface and any hope of the two families mending fences starts to fade…

Praise for Sarah Edghill’s A Thousand Tiny Disappointments

“Thoroughly gripping . . . Sarah Edghill knows how to pinpoint what goes on in families.” —Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“Characters you can relate to.” —Katie Fforde, author of A Country Escape
 
“Compelling.” —Hannah Persaud, author of The Codes of Love
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  1. Print length
    274 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bloodhound Books
  4. Publication date
    June 5, 2024
  5. File size
    2.9 MB
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France, thriller, drama
Family drama, murder mystery, crime
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D194MJCD
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloodhound Books (June 5, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 out of 5 stars 547 ratings

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Sarah Edghill

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Hello and thank you for visiting my author page! I am the author of seven novels, the most recent of which is THE WEDDING, which tells the story of Meg who travels to Wales for the wedding of her university friend, Polly. Meg has been looking forward to this, but over the course of the following 24 hours old resentments rise to the surface, grievances are aired and secrets are revealed in the most catastrophic way. It will be a weekend Meg and her friends never forget, but for all the wrong reasons.

Before turning to fiction, I worked as a journalist for many years, and during my career I interviewed hundreds of people with stories to tell. Listening to their experiences gave me a fascinating insight into humanity in all its guises: what makes people tick and how they react to whatever life throws at them. I aim to write books that suck the reader in: plots that keep you turning the pages and characters who work their way inside your head. The sort of books where you have to read just one more chapter before you turn off the bedside light at night.

I live in Gloucestershire with my husband and far too many animals and we have three grown up children. If you'd like to find out more about me and my writing, please visit my website - www. sarahedghill. com

In THE GOOD DAUGHTER (publ Oct 24) Eve is struggling to hold things together as emotional and physical demands are being made on her from all sides: her elderly mother has just gone into a nursing home, her young son is playing up at school and her ex seems to be enjoying a perfect life with his new wife and their daughter. Then Eve discovers a family secret that threatens to undermine everything she thought she knew about her own past.

In THE POOL (publ June 24) two sisters and their families arrive for a holiday at a French villa, to find a dead body floating in the swimming pool. As the police investigate and the media get hold of the story, the two families find their already fragile bonds are ripped apart and long-held resentments and secrets come to the fore.

In MEMORY ROAD (publ March 24) Lily takes her elderly mother, Moira, on one last roadtrip around the UK. As they trundle across the country in a battered old campervan, Lily feels the strain as she struggles to deal with her mother's decline, her own daughter's criticism and her ex-husband's forthcoming marriage to a younger woman.

THE BAD WIFE (publ June 23) tells the story of Katie, who becomes obsessed by a stranger and starts to worm her way into his life, with devastating consequences for both of them. Katie can't get local GP Joe Harvey out of her mind, but he barely knows she exists... yet.

In HIS OTHER WOMAN (publ May 22), Lucy's husband goes missing having sent her one brief text asking her not to get in touch. She eventually discovers he is with another woman, but it's not who she thinks it it, and the results may be more devastating than an affair.

A THOUSAND TINY DISAPPOINTMENTS (publ Sept 21) tells the story of Martha, whose mother dies unexpectedly and leaves everything a stranger. Struggling with grief and finding herself unsupported by her uninterested husband and bullying brother, Martha is left facing the ultimate moral dilemma: should she carry out her mother’s last wishes, or destroy the evidence so no one will ever know?

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  • Teresa Collins
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was expecting
    Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2024
    So, I started out expecting to read a murder mystery and wound up with a family drama instead. However, it must be a testament to Ms. Edgehill's writing that I didn't quit when I realized it was a family drama. The descriptions of the scenery were vivid and made me want to visit the south of France. I only had two issues with the story. First, I never could decide if I was supposed to like Hannah or not. And I sure didn't. She was a self-centered, self-absorbed, hateful human being. Granted, by the end of the book I saw some semblance of a human being in there but by then it was too late for me. In fact, the only two characters with any redeeming qualities, in my opinion, were Lizzie and Nick. They were the only ones who were trying to make some type of peace in the midst of raging anger from everyone else.
    The other issue I had was all the French scattered throughout the story. Granted, I know the setting is France and they speak French. But I need to understand what characters are saying. The majority of the time, Marcus would translate (which got to be annoying after a while. but sometimes there was no translation at all. I've seen other writers do this and it's just irritating. If I'm going to read a story I want to read all of it.
    All in all I enjoyed the book and would be open to reading another by Ms. Edgehill.
    I received a review copy from the author via Bloohound Books and this review is my honest opinion.
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  • Rachel A.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced family drama
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2024
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    This was a great read that kept me turning the pages to see where the story was headed. The story had believable characters and really good comedic timing, even though it tackled some sticky family issues. The author is great at describing characters and their quirks and creating an entertaining story to tie them altogether. Overall a really fun summer read.
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  • Michele Genest
    3.0 out of 5 stars A French Villa with a Magnificent View...What Could Go Wrong?
    Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2024
    Book Review - The Pool by Sarah Edghill
    Narrated by Esther Wane

    When Hannah and Lizzie’s mom passes away after a long battle with cancer, Hannah finds herself researching vacation destinations and properties in order to fulfill her mother’s last wishes…for her daughters and their families to go on holiday/vacation together. Although at first she dreads the idea of going away with her sister and her family, as the planning unfolds and begins to take shape, Hannah cannot help but feel excited and hopeful that perhaps this is just what was needed to unify their family. The stage is set; the idyllic setting in the south of France is one that dreams are made of…except when everything goes so terribly wrong…

    Hannah and her family are the first to arrive at the magnificent villa and everything seems to be going as planned until her youngest, Jimmy, reveals what he has found in the pool outside. Hannah and her husband NIck, along with their teenage daughter, scramble to contact the authorities and put the pieces together but not before Hannah’s sister, Lizzie, and her husband, Marcus arrive with their teenage daughter, Susie. Both families are instantly thrust into a whirlwind of publicity, police presence, and lots of interrogation. As this story unfolds, the listener is taken on a journey into the inner workings of families, including all of their secrets and heartaches.

    As Hannah and Lizzie struggle to navigate their lives in the midst of chaos, heartbreak and conflict seem to continuously unfold and family secrets are unraveled. All family dynamics are complicated and this family is no different. For me, this story read more like a family relationship novel rather than a thriller, but the storyline was solid and I enjoyed it nonetheless.
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  • Heather Adores Books
    2.0 out of 5 stars 2⭐
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024
    POV ~ single 3rd
    Featuring ~ family drama up the yang, secrets

    Don’t be fooled by the dead body talk in the blurb like I was. This is full on family drama, not a murder mystery.

    Hannah and her immediate family are vacationing with her sister and her family. When they arrive at the villa they discover a body floating in the pool.

    While the body is discussed quite frequently it still takes a back seat to major family drama. Maybe it’s my fault, but when I saw the discovery of a dead body in the pool written in the blurb I stopped reading because I love when dead bodies are discovered, so I thought I’m in for a great murder mystery. Big nope!

    Not one character is likable and they all bugged me at one point or another. I suppose little 7 year old Jimmy was fine~ish with his innocence, but he doesn’t make great choices. The teenage girls are unbearable. There’s tension with the adults. None stop bickering back and forth, awful things were said to each other and about others. Just too much family drama for me.

    They’re British, but in France and only one of them knows how to speak French, so it's spoken quite a few times and then it’s translated for everyone else. Although that's great so we're not lost, it still really bogged down the story for me.

    Overall, not for me, but if you know it’s a family drama going into it maybe you’ll enjoy it more than me.

    Narration notes:
    So overall she did fine. She gave each character their own voice, but some really grated on my nerves.
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  • Vivian
    4.0 out of 5 stars More than just a body in a pool
    Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2024
    Not so closed sisters Hannah and Lizzie and their families are spending a week vacation in a remote house in the south of France hoping to have a cordial relationship between the families.
    The first thing they find in the pool of the house is a body floating in it, what happens next is a little bit of comedy with a very inept police detective that shows up all the time in the most unexpected circumstances.
    But the body is not the most important aspect of the book but the relationship between the sisters and between all the members of the families, resentments, situations of the past that continue in the present, secrets, hidden feelings.
    All these provoke meltdowns that threaten to unravel and at the end do cause a very nasty fight that ruins the vacation.
    I liked the growing of the plot, from the sort of happy feeling beginning to dark and heavy and dense with complexed characters.
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  • Lilacmickey
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2024
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    It was a book that kept me engaged, really enjoyed it and the characters.
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  • Katy J
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic family drama
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2024
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    I'm always drawn to family dramas especially in beautiful settings so snapped this one up to read on holiday. Finding a dead body in the pool when they arrive at the gorgeous French villa is just the start of Hannah and Lizzie's problems. The fact that this shared holiday was their mother's dying wish adds to the pressure and as the tensions between the sisters increase, the revelations tumble out. I love the small cast of characters and the dark humour with the body being seen largely as an inconvenience which they stoically try to work around. The little boy Jimmy steals the show with his innocence and pragmatism. I'm looking forward to reading more by this author.
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  • DV8 Diva
    3.0 out of 5 stars Water way to go.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2024
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    This book is not really a gripping thriller....the impact was more of a paddling pool than an Olympic sized pool with water slides and a swim up bar that the reviews made the book out to be.
    The characters were a bit clichéd - two sisters who don't really get on; a bombastic opinionated brother in law; a Lolita like niece; a sulky teenage daughter and a bratty seven year old.
    Set in France at the start of a fraught family holiday - the French characters made me feel that any moment the Gendarmes were going to come in and say "Lizzen ver' carfooly. I vill say zis onlee vunce" and René to appear at the cafe.
    We never find out whose body is floating in the pool. The plot focuses more on the brewing blow out between the families.
    Having said that, I found the book readable, even if I found the characters a bit annoying - particularly the uptight misery guts Hannah.
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  • ms jeanie Burr
    4.0 out of 5 stars The pool
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2024
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    Not what I thought it would be and certainly not a thriller at all. Well written, witty and well observed. A little slow and I was waiting for something to happen but it wasn’t that kind of book. Basically a story about family and the tensions and resentments that seethe and boil over sometimes.
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  • SL
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great summer read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2024
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    This tale of two warring families wasn't what I was expecting, but it was a great read and I couldn't put it down. Sisters Hannah and Lizzie, and their families, arrive at a holiday home in the south of France to find a dead body in the swimming pool - what an intriguing start to a book! The body turns out to be incidental in many ways; what unfolds is the story of these two very different women, caught up in a simmering pot of secrets, rivalries, resentments and misunderstandings. My favourite character was 7-year-old Jimmy, who wanders through the whole thing oblivious to most of the drama, while providing a succession of witty one-liners. A tense, sometimes sad but also funny read. Highly recommended.
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