Sandra leaves an intimidating binder of rules and the unreliable Happy app, which controls the state-of-the-art technology throughout the house. When Bill and Sandra unexpectedly depart the next day, the job immediately reveals itself to be much more demanding than Rowan anticipated. On her first night, patriarch Bill Elincourt makes a sexual advance toward her, which leaves her with a crushing sense of disappointment. She goes back to Heatherbrae with a naïve optimism. Shortly after Rowan returns to London following her interview, she is offered the job. Despite Sandra’s warnings about the house’s notorious history, Rowan takes an immediate liking to Heatherbrae and the Elincourt family-and decides she wants nothing more than to work for them. She learns that the eldest, 14-year-old Rhiannon, is away at boarding school. Upon arrival, she meets matriarch Sandra Elincourt along with her three youngest daughters: 8-year-old Maddie, 5-year-old Ellie, and the baby, Petra. To her surprise, Rowan, who has been working at a daycare center in London, is invited for an interview. Wrexham that it starts with her application for a well-paying nanny position at Heatherbrae House in the Scottish Highlands. She then recounts how she came to be in her current circumstances, explaining to Mr. Rowan begins by maintaining her innocence in the death of one of the children in her care, insisting that she did not kill the girl. The Turn of the Key is primarily told through the voice of Rowan Caine in a letter she is writing from prison to a lawyer named Mr. Some of Ware’s books have won, or been nominated for, major book awards, and three have been optioned for the screen. Other thrillers by Ware include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs.

It was a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and named Thriller of the Month by Waterstones. The book joined several others penned by Ware as both a critical and commercial success.

The Turn of the Key is a crime thriller published in 2019 by international best-selling author Judith Ware.

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