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Sister of Mine

af Laurie Petrou

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:One of Refinery29's ??Best Psychological Suspense Novels to Read After Gone Girl?
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a ??twisty, claustrophobic? domestic suspense novel about the lies we tell to hold our lives together (Entertainment Weekly)

Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do anything for her older sister, Hattie agrees to help. A match is struck and a fire burns Penny??s marriage to the ground. With her husband gone, Penny is free, and the sisters, it seems, get away with murder. But freedom comes at a cost.
More than a year after the fire, a charming young man comes to town. Hattie and Penny quickly bring him into the fold and into their hearts but their love for him threatens the delicate balance. Soon long-held resentments, sibling rivalry, and debts unpaid boil over, and the bonds of sisterhood begin to snap. As one little lie grows into the next, the sisters?? secrets will unravel, eroding their lives until only a single, horrible truth remains: You owe me.
A compelling novel of suspense from a talented new voice, Sister of Mine asks us to consider the bonds of family, what it takes to commit the unthinkable, and how far you??ll go to prote
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The relationship between the three main characters is so twisted that it was hard to keep reading - the characters were all unlikeable, emotionally unstable and with no redeeming characteristics. One of the least enjoyable books I've read in a long time. ( )
  LeslieWilding | Jul 29, 2020 |
This novel becomes more interesting as it progresses. Two sisters, Penny and Hattie, are abandoned by their father and then their mother dies, leaving them alone in the family home as teenagers. Penny marries into an abusive relationship, which ends tragically. Hattie becomes enamored of a man who teaches with Penny. When they are unable to conceive a child, Hattie turns to Penny with unexpected consequences. There is a gradual unraveling of secrets, lies and deceptions in a slowly untangling web that haunts their lives and, ultimately, changes everything except the sisters' bond with each other. ( )
  pdebolt | Apr 30, 2020 |
Since their father walked out of the family home during their childhood the Grayson sisters have shared a powerful if, at times, ambivalent bond. Quiet, self-contained Penny has always felt protective of her younger sister Hattie, whilst at the same time envying her sibling’s beauty and her sunnier, carefree personality. Following the sudden death of their mother, when Penny was nineteen and Hattie sixteen, Penny is appointed her sister’s guardian. Although she had recently started at college and was beginning to enjoy a sense of freedom from family responsibilities, she feels she has no option but to return to the family home to care for Hattie. Giving up on her dreams of freedom, she now feels a strong need to find ways of adapting to her changed circumstances, to fit into her community, the small Canadian town of St Margaret’s. When she meets Buddy, and quickly marries him, she believes that he will not only love and care for her, but that he will share some of the responsibility for her sister. Although the couple move into their own home, Hattie continues to live in the family home but, as it is close by, there is frequent contact between the two households. However, it quickly becomes apparent that Buddy is controlling and abusive and Penny feels trapped and fearful. Eventually the sisters become complicit in a plan to set a house fire which will leave Buddy dead, and Penny free to return to live with Hattie. They now share a dark secret and although in many ways this reinforces their bond, it also threatens to drive them apart because, whilst Penny, ever-fearful that their crime will be uncovered, is eager to minimise contact with residents of the town, the more outgoing Hattie wants to be more sociable, to be able to invite friends to their home. Through her job as director of the local day-care centre Penny meets the handsome, charismatic Jameson Leung, when he takes a teaching job at the attached school and, feeling an immediate attraction, she decides to act uncharacteristically and invite him for dinner. Inevitably he falls for Hattie’s charms and although Penny decides to not only accept, but also encourage their relationship, she struggles with her jealousy over their increasing closeness.
Penny is the narrator of this powerful story of an intense sibling relationship, one which is made much more complex by the deadly secret the two sisters are keeping, their joint fear that the death of Buddy will be reinvestigated and the many ways in which the presence of Jameson creates new rivalries, secrets and tensions. In the years that follow the bond between these three characters becomes increasingly entangled as the balance of power shifts from one sister to the other, and Jameson’s role in this ménage a trois becomes ever-more significant. The need to preserve the secrets of the past becomes more urgent and yet it feels increasingly inevitable that these secrets will be revealed, with far-reaching and devastating consequences for everyone.
Through Penny’s reflections on her life – her fears, her hopes, and all her ambivalent feelings about Hattie – I soon found myself drawn into the neurotic-symbiosis of the relationship between the sisters. The author very convincingly evoked the powerful love/hate elements of many sibling relationships, ambivalences which became increasingly skewed as a result of the dreadful secrets Penny and Hattie were forced to keep. She captured the constantly shifting power-struggles between the sisters, as well as the envy, the guilt, the rage, the resentments, the grief, the loyalty – and the love – each of them brought to their co-dependent relationship. Although I didn’t feel particularly drawn to either of them, I think this was probably a reflection of the realistic ways in which the author explored their relationship, revealing how each played a part in the dilemmas they faced. Neither was portrayed as either entirely guilty or blameless, instead there was a recognition that each of them needed to acknowledge, and face up to, the responsibility they bore for the decisions they made.
With the ever-present question about what exactly happened on the night Buddy died forming a continuous thread through the story, the author created a tension-filled psychological thriller which felt increasingly haunting and claustrophobic and one which I found difficult to put down. Although there are some (rather predictable) twists in the plot, essentially this is a character-driven story, reliant on the credibility of the characters’ interactions to make it memorable. It was this psychological integrity, combined with the Laurie Petrou’s eloquent prose, which made this a very satisfying read for me. I think it is a remarkable debut novel and I’ll be looking out for the author’s next book.
With thanks to NB for a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. ( )
  linda.a. | Jun 26, 2019 |
When I started reading reviews on this book around the blogosphere, as well as seeing that the author is Canadian, I picked this book up at the library to read. This is a domestic thriller with a lot of family drama. There are secrets, life-changing secrets, and debts that need to be paid. I do not want to give the plot and story away, so will be very brief in that area.

When their father leaves the home at a young age, their mother raises them alone. Penny promises her mother that she will look after Hattie if anything ever happens to her. When she dies, Penny promises herself that she will look after Hattie. After Penny's husband dies in a house fire, Penny and Hattie live together in their childhood home. When Penny brings a man home, Hattie and Jameson hit it off and their lives change again. Things between all of them will never be the same. Words such as "you owe me" are said, hidden resentments, jealousy, secrets and lies bubble to the surface. Will their loyalty and sisterly bonds be enough to weather any storm? Will the burden of keeping a secret burn a hole in their relationship and sever their bond?

This is a well-written domestic thriller. The sisters are well developed and the central focus remains on their volatile relationship throughout. Fire is central to this story, whether deliberate r not, they are dangerous and can kill. From the very beginning of this story, you know something bad happened between these two sisters, and that is what kept me reading. I was not prepared for the ending of this book at all, but it was true to the theme of Sisters. What will they do for each other? ( )
  Carlathelibrarian | Feb 5, 2019 |
This is the story of two sisters (Penny and Mattie) with secrets that would strain any relationship. One has to do with the death of Penny's husband in a tragic fire. Another involves Hattie's inability to conceive and Penny agreeing to be impregnated so that they might have a child. The novel is well written and generally believable. I believe it will gain wide readership among women who I see as the target audience. Could be the kind of a book that is made into a movie or miniseries. ( )
  muddyboy | Oct 21, 2018 |
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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:One of Refinery29's ??Best Psychological Suspense Novels to Read After Gone Girl?
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a ??twisty, claustrophobic? domestic suspense novel about the lies we tell to hold our lives together (Entertainment Weekly)

Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do anything for her older sister, Hattie agrees to help. A match is struck and a fire burns Penny??s marriage to the ground. With her husband gone, Penny is free, and the sisters, it seems, get away with murder. But freedom comes at a cost.
More than a year after the fire, a charming young man comes to town. Hattie and Penny quickly bring him into the fold and into their hearts but their love for him threatens the delicate balance. Soon long-held resentments, sibling rivalry, and debts unpaid boil over, and the bonds of sisterhood begin to snap. As one little lie grows into the next, the sisters?? secrets will unravel, eroding their lives until only a single, horrible truth remains: You owe me.
A compelling novel of suspense from a talented new voice, Sister of Mine asks us to consider the bonds of family, what it takes to commit the unthinkable, and how far you??ll go to prote

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