The Secret Next Door
Book Feature - The Secret Next Door by Rebecca Taylor
HBL Note: How well do you really know your neighbors? That’s the question at the heart of this novel. It’s an interesting question. For me, the answer has changed dramatically depending on where I lived. As a kid, my neighbors were my best friends. In middle school and high school, I knew one or two. In my first few apartments as a married couple, I didn’t know them at all. I couldn’t even tell you what they looked like. In the first place we owned? Well, we got to know them pretty well as we rebuilt after a fire. I became very close friends with one, and she described living in the same building as a sort of sorority house (in the best possible way.)
I’ve been through a lot with my neighbors, but let us hope that we never experience what the neighbors in THE SECRET NEXT DOOR by Rebecca Taylor experienced. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Secret Next Door by Rebecca Taylor
Book Feature - The Secret Next Door by Rebecca Taylor
From the publisher:
Alyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had: a stable family, a loving home, and a great school in a safe neighborhood.
Bonnie Sloan is the neighborhood matriarch. With her oldest son headed to Yale, and her youngest starting kindergarten, Bonnie is now pursuing her own long-held political aspirations despite private family struggles.
When the open space behind some of the most expensive homes gets slated for development into an amusement facility, the neighborhood becomes deeply divided. The personal pressures and community conflicts ratchet with every passing day, but it's when a thirteen-year-old is found dead beside the neighborhood lake that simmering tensions boil over into panic.
Gossip flows, lies are exposed, and accusations are made as cracks run through the community's once solid foundations. The neighborhood's faith in exterior appearances is eclipsed by the secrets every house keeps. And as Bonnie and Alyson fight to keep their children safe and their messy personal lives from becoming neighborhood knowledge, it becomes clear that their neighbors might not be who they appear to be.
Book Feature - The Secret Next Door by Rebecca Taylor
