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THE HOUSE GUEST
by Charlotte Northedge (HarperCollins £14.99, 352 pp)
If you suspect life coaches are a bunch of sinister manipulators who sell themselves as saviours to the vulnerable, then this is the book for you.
Despite her skinny jeans, perfect skin and fab house in London’s fashionable Crouch End, there’s something a bit creepy about life coach Della.
She appears as a rescuer for Kate, an insecure 20-something who has moved to London to escape a family life in Cambridge that was marred by the disappearance of her sister, Scarlett, when she was a young child.
Kate joins Della’s self-help group called the Janes and is gradually drawn deeper into Della’s seemingly faultless family life. But Della has plans for Kate that will eventually detonate her present life and cause her to totally re-think her past.