The Woman in the Woods

I've read all of Lisa Hall's previous books and enjoyed them for the most part but this one absolutely did not work for me.

The blurb makes it sound like it will be a creepy, chilling thriller but really the blurb should read:

“Woman has baby and is tired. Woman is reminded daily by friends and family that she is tired. Slightly odd things start happening in her supposedly haunted house, but she's tired so they must be in her head. Also, she's tired.” Get the point?

It just felt too predictable, too repetitive, not quite chilling enough to warrant that label and I really don't like the tired trope of someone not being believed due to mental health/illness.

A tense, gripping, thrill of a read.