Our House

Louise Candlish Simon and Schuster. Out now

What sounds like an impossible nightmare is made horribly plausible in this addictive portrayal of how lives can unravel. Fi is divorcing her feckless and faithless husband Bram, but they still co-own their London home – until the day she gets home to find a pair of strangers moving in, convinced they are the rightful owners. With heart-inyour-mouth suspense, the narrative scrolls back to Bram’s original betrayal and the chain of events that led to his desperate deeds. A compulsive story with a final flourish in the form of a delicious sting in the tale – one of this year’s must-reads. DEIRDRE O’BRIEN