Web of Scars
- Farah Ali
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min read
If you like your psychological characters to be absolutely psychopathic nutcases, then you'll love reading about Hester in Web of Scars.
The opening chapter is of a car crashing down a cliff side with Frances being the only survivor. Her friend and fellow passenger, Rosie, is dead and so is Rosie's daughter, Nilah. After so much heartache, injury and relationship deceit, Frances leaves her husband and goes to live in her grandmother's house which she has recently inherited. She tries to start a new life for herself with the comfort and familiarity of her childhood neighbours and village, continuing to write her series of children's book for income. Things really start to take off when Frances hires Josh and Hester to tend the enormous garden. Josh is a lovely quiet local man with an unfortunate stammer and Hester is a vile and evil individual – except she's sure to have Frances only see the good in her.
Lots of things mysteriously start to go wrong for Frances and we, the reader, get to see Hester's cruel and vicious ways. But why? Who is Hester, why is she so cruel and what has any of this got to do with Frances?
Written in third person, each of the chapters have the individual characters' viewpoints and a full picture emerges around their relationship to and with Frances. This gripping story gives a climatic end, allowing the reader to breathe again for the final concluding chapter.