Just Started: The Girl Below by Bianca Zander

The Girl Below: A Novel
by Bianca Zander
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publication Date: June 19, 2012
Source: Review copy from the publisher

Amazon Synopsis:

Suki Piper is a stranger in her hometown. . . .

After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won’t let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy—an old family friend who still lives in the building where she grew up—convinces Suki that there is a way to reconnect with the life she left behind a decade earlier. But the more involved she becomes with Peggy’s dysfunctional family, including Peggy’s wayward sixteen-year-old grandson, the more Suki finds herself mysteriously slipping back in time—to the night of a party her parents threw in their garden more than twenty years ago, when something happened in an old, long-unused air-raid shelter. . . .

A breathtaking whirlwind of mystery, transgression, and self-discovery, Bianca Zander’s The Girl Below is a haunting tale of secrets, human frailty, and dark memory that heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new literary talent.

First Sentence:

IT WAS ONLY MAY, but the streets flared golden like they do in high summer, and all around me the neighborhood sighed with so much privilege that I felt shut out – a stranger on the block where my childhood took place.

Check back next week for my full review!

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