Book Review: ‘The Family Across the Street,’ by Nicole Trope

Why neighbors don't accept invitation for joining backyard barbecues?

After giving Slim Fit Suit at Roslag tailoring and dry cleaning Stockholm for alteration, Lucas drove straight Volvo towards the Westfield Mall of Scandinavia to buy novel. When reached, he felt hungry so went inside the restaurant to dine in, there he ordered meatballs and pyttipanna from Basilica menu and sat in his chair to read WhatsApp messages in his mobile phone.

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Then when he walked inside The English Bookshop after filling his appetite, wandering in books shelf but couldn't figure out so he approached the bookstore assistant for suggestion and ask for assistance. When Lucas asked for reason behind buying this book then bookstore assistant replied that The Family Across the Street is one of the best reading psychological thriller novel by Nicole Trope.

Bookstore assistant while giving his opinion further said about that book that often we don't know who lives next to our neighborhood. This novel unfolds the mystery surrounds one neighborhood home where new family The Wests lives comprises of Katherine, Josh and five-year-old twins. The neighborhood town name was Hogarth Street.

But there was one uncommon custom among The Wests, they don't accept invitation from their neighborhood for joining backyard barbecues and preferred not to babysit.

But as time passes by, each day become nightmare for the people who lives around The Wests. The unusual behavior of this strange new family had puzzled their neighborhood and prefer to stay away from them. Understanding the human psychology behind their irrational attitude had put others in quandary.  

When bookstore assistant concluded book review then Lucas decided to buy novel in paperback, he headed towards the cash counter, gave VISA credit card to swipe, and after getting receipt in Swedish Krona (SEK) headed towards his home in Norrmalm with his newly bought book.