Instead their relationship is quite vague. I liked that Fisher drops us into the middle of the action as it allayed my fears of a lengthy introduction or courting between Juno and the Crouch family. Remnants of something being thrown or dropped the night before. It opens in the aftermath of a fight between Winnie and her husband Nigel, as Juno is gingerly picking her way through shattered glass in the kitchen. The book unfolds from the points of view of Juno – in her late 60s and a former psychologist who’s only fairly recently relocated to Seattle and Winnie – a wife and mother to a teenage boy.

But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel…īut this could be her chance to make a few things right.īecause if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore. The Wrong Familyīefore moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son-the perfect life. Certainly NOT expected something I didn’t see coming. And the circumstances involved are probably one of the best parts of the plot. That she obsessively idolised them in some single-white-female-stalker way (which she only does a little) or she’s coerced or kidnapped or similar.īut that’s not at all the case. I think I’d assumed there would be some laborious backstory that resulted in Juno going to live with the Crouch family. See my full disclosure policy here.I enjoyed The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher more than expected.

If a purchase is made through an affiliate link, I may receive a commission at no cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. **Please note, some links on this page are affiliate links. * I received this book for free from the publisher (Graydon House) in exchange for an honest review. But she might just have a secret or two of her own. Juno, an older woman who’s living with them, overhears their conversations and starts to realize not everything is as it seems. But there are secrets simmering under the surface – old and new – that are begging to come to light. From the outside, it looks like they have the perfect marriage, the perfect family, and are living the perfect life. Winnie and Nigel Crouch live with their son in a large, old house by Greenlake in Seattle.

The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher is a domestic thriller set in Seattle, centering around a family with a lot of secrets, and the older woman who lives with them.

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