We Live Here Now

By Sarah Pinborough

Limited edition printing with stenciled edges
USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Atmospheric, immersive, surprising and as dark as wet tires." --New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant. . . The twist completely blew my mind. I adored every page." --Lisa Jewell

Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house--and a marriage--gone terribly wrong.

After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking--and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.

Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily's alone, so are they happening at all? She's still medically fragile; her postsepsis condition can cause hallucinatory side effects, which means she can't fully trust her own senses. Freddie doesn't notice anything odd and is happy with their chance at a fresh start.

Emily, however, starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it, though she can find no evidence of a wrongful death. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge.

But if the house has secrets, so do Emily and her husband.

And they live here now.

"All marriages have secrets. All houses have a past. But not like this one. This is Sarah Pinborough at her mind-bending best."
--Ruth Ware, bestselling author of One Perfect Couple

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250394058
• ISBN13: 9781250394057
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Disturbing yet fascinating!

What a devious story! This book does a wonderful slow creepiness where I couldn't tell if what was going on was supernatural or all in the character's heads. Emily and Freddie do not have a very strong connection in their marriage so the way they try to sabotage each other make them unreliable narrators. Wonderfully twisty this was as Emily fears that she is hallucinating and going crazy due to her accident and post sepsis but even so she goes about trying to delve into Larkin Lodge's past owners. Freddie has his own issues which may or may not include murdering his wife to solve his problems (stellar husband he is!) which also ramps up the tension between the couple. I also totally love the viewpoint of the raven and his own connection to the house. I definitely did not guess what was going on but I loved the horror of it, even as it all became twisted and I had to finish the book as fast as possible to see what the end result was, if Emily and Freddie had a future or if one or both would make it out of the house alive! If you are looking for a great dark domestic horror with secrets, lies, unreliable narrators, a bit of humor and a house with a hidden past, then you will love this book! And if you listen to it via audiobook, the narrators do a great job bringing the characters to life and making the world of this book seem very real. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to listen to this wonderfully disturbing audiobook that I absolutely loved!