Those People: The gripping, compulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of Our House

Louise Candlish

Jun 2019 · Simon and Schuster

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'One of this summer's most anticipated thrillers'Stylist
'Scarily plausible' Observer

MEET THE NEIGHBOURS YOU'LL LOVE TO HATE

Until Darren and Jodie move in, Lowland Way is a suburban paradise. Beautiful homes. Friendly neighbours. Kids playing out in the street. But Darren and Jodie don't follow the rules and soon disputes over loud music and parking rights escalate to threats of violence.

Then, early one Sunday, a horrific crime shocks the street. As the police go house-to-house, the residents close ranks and everyone's story is the same: They did it.

But there's a problem. The police don't agree. And the door they're knocking on next is yours. 

Praise for Those People:

'Guaranteed to have you vibrating with impotent fury … a carefully crafted psychological thriller’ Laura Wilson, Guardian

‘A feverish atmosphere is built up, with Candlish again skewering the peccadilloes and prejudices of her middle-class characters’ Sunday Times

'You're in for a treat!' Lisa Jewell

'Those People is nail-bitingly tense from the first page to the last. Louise Candlish shows us the dark side of suburbia – and of ourselves' Erin Kelly

‘Sharp satire and a plot that builds to a roiling boil with a couple of oh-so-clever final twists’ Sarah Vaughan

'Beautifully modulated and terrifically suspenseful' Washington Post

‘Twists aplenty, and such wonderful observation - I loved it' Clare Mackintosh

'An addictive, twisty page-turner about the neighbours from hell' Alice Feeney

'A delicious slice of suburban noir. I loved it' Harriet Tyce 

'Candlish is a master at peeling away the veneer of middle-class respectability, and utterly nails the trials of living cheek-by-jowl with awful neighbours. You’ll be asking yourself, “How far would I go?”' heat

'Booth’s boorish presence causes sleep-deprived couples to bicker hatefully and grown siblings to become enraged with one another, until the whole community seems to turn on itself - with fatal consequences' Wall Street Journal

'A smart and twisty tale… a compelling read' Woman & Home

'A devilishly good thriller… with a wicked ending. Loved it' Laura Kemp

'Utterly gripping' RED

'A read that will make you rejoice for nice neighbours!' Prima

'Louise Candlish captures the mores of middle-class life and our worst, curtain-twitching tendencies like no one else' RED, online 

'Full of marvellously toxic characters' Best

'An unsettling, darkly funny, artfully composed novel about the way we live now' Irish Times

Ratings and reviews

Are you a fan of the idyllic community setting that you see in feel good TV shows like Neighbours? If you are, then this book is definitely not for you! Louise has created a world much like pleasantville, in the suburb of Lowland Way in the south of London, where everything is portrayed as all sunshine and roses. But what was once the ideal street to live in, soon turns into a nightmare when Darren and Jodie set up residence! They are everything that the rest of the community are not! They play loud music and drink until all hours of the morning, have rubbish and building materials littering their yard, as well as multiple vehicles around that makes the street look like a used car lot. You can imagine that this does not go down well with the other resident’s, and after multiple attempts from each of the neighbours who politely trying to reason with them, Darren and Jodie just laugh off their attempts at trying to make them fit into their way of living. Then tragedy strikes when one of their own is killed, and everyone is quick to come together to place the blame on Darren and Jodie in the hope that they will be arrested and they can get back their once idyllic street. But there are some things that don’t add up to the police and this is when the story moves into territory of how far would someone go in setting someone up for a crime that has been committed by another. Louise has cleverly set up a story like what you see out of the TV show “The Nightmare Next Door” and does a great job at conveying what it would be like to live next door to a neighbour from hell! I was able to feel what the residents were feeling and I was very anxious throughout. I could not think of anything worse and I loved how the story moved from an upbeat one to a more darker and sinister tone. There are a number of characters in the book, that are a mix bag of both likeable and unlikeable ones, that are well written and developed. We are given glimpses into each of their lives away from the perfect world that has been created on the outside to where the reader becomes privy to secrets that are being kept hidden behind closed doors, and how their lives are not as perfect as they appear to be. It is a very intriguing insight how two people can change the dynamics of a street into one where the residents are forced into revealing who they really are. As the story progresses, any one of them could be the culprit and when I thought I had it figured out, Louise would throw in a curve ball and take me in a completely different direction right up to the finale. I really enjoyed that in this book. This is a quick enjoyable read that moves at a steady pace, with just the right amount of mystery and suspense that kept me enthralled throughout. I recommend this book and look forward to reading more from Louise in the future. Thank-you to #NetGalley, #SimonandSchuster (Australia) and #LouiseCandlish for allowing me to read an advanced copy of Those People in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own and are not biased in anyway.

Good but nowhere near as good as some of her books. well written but the storyline did not blow me away.

it just ended..no closure, fore reading it...but still a very good read

About the author

Louise Candlish is the internationally bestselling author of fifteen novels, including The Other Passenger, The Heights, and Our House, which won the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. It is now a major four-part TV drama starring Martin Compston, Tuppence Middleton, and Rupert Penry-Jones, available to stream on CBC Gem. Louise lives in London with her husband and daughter. Connect with her on Twitter @Louise_Candlish, Facebook @LouiseCandlishAuthor, and Instagram @LouiseCandlish.