Book review: Cuckoo by Julia Crouch
‘Nothing is what it seems’... Julia Crouch’s dark novel sheds a new and disturbing light on the age-old maxim.
There’s another saying that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’... and one about ‘a friend in need being a friend indeed.’
All these truisms lie at the fast-beating heart of what is undoubtedly a superb debut novel but if that makes Cuckoo sound like a book of clichés, think again because life’s major driving forces get a compelling workout in this deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-go suspense thriller.