The Move

The Move

Author: JP Delaney Listening Length: 7h 54m
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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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Chapter 18

EIGHTEEN

That night, as Matt slept beside her, she lay in bed, listening to the house.

It was windy, and Trade Cottage was responding with a series of moans and reverberations, shaking whenever it was buffeted by a particularly strong gust. The soughing of the leylandii outside the window was like the crashing of distant surf, and the house felt like a ship under full sail, ploughing on through choppy waters.

Her reaction to Paul and Rosemary’s offer had been atavistic, she knew – as visceral as her disgust at the rats. Matt couldn’t quite get his head around it. As far as he was concerned, they’d made a slightly ridiculous suggestion, and she’d pooh-poohed it, and that was that.