If you like stories to have a hint of the supernatural, here’s one for you. Christopher Coake (We’re In Trouble) has fashioned a tale of conflicting emotions, a fighting couple and what many believe to be the impossible. Suffused with suspense You Came Back is the story of Mark Fife who believes his life is now on an even keel after the devastating loss of his young son and subsequent divorce from Chloe. He has not forgotten the past but has apparently learned to live with it.
It has been seven years since his son Brendan died, and Mark is planning to marry Allison. However, he is beleaguered by Connie, the woman who now owns the house where Brendan died. She insists that there is a presence in the house and it is Brendan. The still mournful and perhaps unclear Chloe wants to look into this, grasping at anything?
Mark, on the other hand, finds himself between unbelieving and believing. He is so conflicted that he returns to an old bad habit - drinking too much. Much of the plot hinges on the sparring between Mark and his ex-wife as well as the frustration felt by Allison due to the turn of events.
You Came Back is an intriguing contemporary Gothic tale well worth the read.
- Gail Cooke
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