The Stranger in Room Six

by Jane Corry 

The Stranger in Room Six is a captivating story told from the point of view of Belinda and Mabel. Two very different ladies, with a considerable age gap, who have led very different lives, but now find themselves becoming friends at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart. Neither knows of each other’s past, to begin with, until they agree to share their secrets with each other and promise to keep each other’s confidences. I thought this was a very clever way of revealing their pasts to the reader. I was as keen as they both were to learn the next chapter of each of their stories.

Belinda is trying to move on after serving a long prison sentence for murdering her husband. She’s not the murdering type you would imagine though. Far from it. I liked her and I really felt for her.

Mabel owns the home she lives in, inherited from her aunt. She lived there as a child where she got herself involved in things she never truly understood as a teenager, during the war. Things that leave her in danger now. I really liked Mabel too. She’s a fascinating lady with a fascinating and difficult past. I found her story particularly compelling.

I thoroughly enjoyed the ladies’ chats and discovering the truths they unravel between them. I found the fact that someone was watching them from room six very unsettling and I needed to know what they were up to, why, and if Belinda and Mabel remained safe in their beds. I was well and truly hooked!

An easy five stars for me, I loved it!

** I won a paperback copy of this book via a fellow bookstagrammer’s giveaway. After I’d read it, I was approached by the publisher to join in with the blog tour, which is why I haven’t posted my review before now **

You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you.

It’s been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband’s murder. Now, she’s ready for her life to begin again, and she’s set on that happening at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart.

The owner, Mabel, has spent her life here. First as an evacuee during the Blitz and now as the care home’s oldest resident, Mabel has held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets that could kill if in the wrong hands.

But history won’t stay hidden forever and someone is onto them both. Watching and listening from room number six, they’ll stop at nothing to find out the truth.

With a past this dark, is anyone as innocent as they seem?

Happy reading!

Many thanks to Viking Books for inviting me to join is with Jane Corry’s fabulous blog tour!