num_pages: 336
description: Of course it was love for my children love for my son that caused me to act as I did. It was a lapse of judgement. If I could have foreseen the rippling aftershocks that followed I would have acted differently but by the time I realised the extent of the consequences it was too late.The MacBrides have always gone to Far Barn in Devon for Bonfire Night but this year everything is different. Lydia the matriarch is dead; Sophie the eldest daughter is desperately trying to repair a crumbling marriage; and Felix the youngest of the family has brought a girlfriend with him for the first time. The girl Kerry seems odd in a way nobody can quite put their finger on - but when they leave her looking after Sophie's baby daughter and return to find both Kerry and the baby gone they are forced to ask themselves if they have allowed a cuckoo into their nest...Gripping and chilling with a killer twist The Burning Air reaffirms Erin Kelly as one of Britain's foremost psychological thriller writers.
language: English
title: The Burning Air
publisher: Pamela Dorman Books