'The Shades' Is Both Psychological Study And Taut Thriller
Evgenia Citkowitz's new novel follows a family attempting to put their lives back together after a loss. The Halls hope their newly purchased country retreat will help — but things soon go awry.
by Michael Schaub
Jul 03, 2018
3 minutes
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For the Hall family, the country house called Hamdean was supposed to be a retreat, a suite of well-appointed rooms where they could escape their busy London lives. Buying the front part of the manor in southeast England was the idea of Michael, who works in real estate, although his wife, Catherine, was wary of her husband's "." Her skepticism, sadly, proves to be right — although not in a way either of
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