The Move

The Move

Author: JP Delaney Listening Length: 7h 54m

New beginnings can be deadly . . . Kate and Matt Crowther are finally moving out of London, in search of a better life for their young family. Trade Cottage seems to be the house of their dreams – and they immediately hit it off with the sellers, Rosemary and Paul Finch, who brought up their own family there. When Kat...

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As it turned out, the house was lovely. No, Kate thought, more than lovely: it was spectacularly, breathtakingly perfect.

She hadn’t expected that, to be honest. The agent’s particulars – such a quaint word for what was, these days, little more than a two-page printout and a listing on Rightmove – had been almost impossible to make sense of, even with the help of the floor plan.

Rooms appeared to open into other rooms almost at random; there were two staircases; the kitchen windows looked out into the sitting room; upright oak beams were stranded in the middle of floors, like the ghosts of long-removed walls.