The House of Lost Secrets

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars | 4,315 ratings

Price: 4.99

Last update: 09-01-2024


About this item

She thought she knew her best friend…She was wrong.

The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding’s sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she fell in love with the sea air, sandy beach and Tristan, Rachel’s older brother…

All these years later, Clachan is where their most important occasions and conversations take place, so when Rachel organises a weekend there, Jo never suspects that this weekend will change everything. Because it turns out Rachel has been keeping a secret, a betrayal that plunges Jo into a past she’s spent years trying to forget.

Left to untangle the pieces of their past alone, Jo has to decide if there is such a thing as forgiveness when there is no one left to forgive?


From the Publisher

The House of Lost Secrets, Anstey Harris, Lake Union, Amazon Publishing

Top reviews from the United States

M.T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it. Seriously, just read it.
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
Wow. Just wow. Such a beautifully written book and powerful story. Reading the beautifully descriptive word pictures of Clachan and its surroundings is like savoring your favorite meal. So much of what Ms. Harris's characters say and think about grief and loss and love has given me peace and belonging as I begin the fourth year of processing my beloved mother's death, and finding my way forward. My mother and I shared a love of really good books. I feel like she sent this one to me.
Mary Murray Shelton
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Expression of the Tenderness and Complexity of Families, Friends, and Different Points of View
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
The relationships between the characters is revealed in deepening levels of truth and complexity. The characters are imperfect people, with lots to recommend their goodness and struggles along with their flaws. It is tender, hopeful, painful, funny, and holds the reader’s interest while it builds on these revealed layers as the narrator discovers what she never knew or never understood about those closest to her as she grew up.
MFeather
3.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to like it more
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2024
I enjoyed the story and the characters. It jumps around way too much one paragraph your here the next your 40 years back just a fast you are a year ago and then back to present. She also doesn't build the characters. For instance about half way through she says Rachel had red hair, threw me a little. Also, why was she shopping with Ben? Its not logical.
However, overall its a nice story about friendship, forgiveness, and love.
judith pennington
5.0 out of 5 stars Tender and beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
I loved this book and it's rich, vivid characters. Gorgeous language, a language read that will stay with me, as to all great books. Thank you for this great pleasure.
Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Evocative and Emotional
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
This is one of those books that people describe as difficult to put down, and, so it was for me. Well developed characters, an interesting plot and so brilliantly descriptive of the place where the story unfolds will capture the reader until the very end. I loved it!
Kindle Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful book
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
I enjoyed this book a lot. The setting was really beautiful, and the story was easy to read and got more interesting as the book went along
Amie Conant
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting...
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2024
Interesting premise, good characters, and lovely setting in Scotland.
I had to read it as the sample was so mysterious.

Warning-- possible spoilers.

I wish I could eat the food that the main character makes in the book.

No errors in the book on kindle that I saw, that's always a plus.

Some of the realizations that the main character has were helpful to me as I grew up in a dysfunctional family. My Mom is now under hospice care in Oregon.

We all make mistakes. Guilt forever is not how we are meant to live. ♡
Octavia
3.0 out of 5 stars Slow. Not my cup of tea.
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2024
It's written well, but it is so very slow. I skipped through the excessive character musings to see what happened, only to find not much ever did. It was a Kindle First reads so at least I didn't spend any money on it.

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