This book was definitely something different from what I was expecting.
Talking about mental health issues and how we live our lives nowadays are important topics that sometimes we have to be more aware in this busy time of indifference.
Am old say is that The green is greener on the other side of the fence and it really felt like this with the story. Battling a depression and a break up from her boyfriend, a woman makes her point in living with the desire of having what her neighbour is having at any cost. The walls in an apartment block are always thin but that doesn’t mean that you really can hear and know exactly what the people next door have or how they live their lives.
After the first half of the book , the tension gets real and more interesting and suspenseful.
It’s gripping and while it’s not a five stars book, it’s one that needs to be read and discuss.

Two women who can hear each other through the walks of their homes. This makes for an interesting read. A little slow to start with But not long before you can’t wait to turn the pages faster.

I was so intrigued by the premise of this story. Two women living next door to each other, each thinking the other has the perfect enviable life.

The two women are Lexie and Harriet. Lexie lives with Tom and she’s desperate for a baby. Harriet lives in the flat next door, on the other side of a fairly thin wall, and she’s rather more unstable. In alternating chapters we hear from each one as they simultaneously fall apart.

They say the grass is always greener and never more so than for Lexie and Harriet. Each is convinced the other has this sparkly and wonderful life compared to their own and yet nothing could be further from the truth. What works so well in this book is the claustrophobic feel of the flats. They’re in a sought after part of London, and are not cheap, but they still live virtually on top of each other. They can hear what the others are up to in the next door flat and it starts to take over their lives.

It took me a bit of getting into Through The Wall, mainly I think because of the similarities between the two women. I kept getting muddled up with who was talking. But once I got into the story I soon got over that and I found this a difficult book to put down. It has short chapters, little bursts of narrative that kept me turning the pages quickly. Towards the end I was dreading what might happen, almost reading between my fingers, and the last word is, well, a bit of a jaw-dropper.

Caroline Corcoran portrays well what it must be like to be stalked, to be made to feel like you’re going crazy. She also hits the spot in terms of unrequited love, obsession and desperation. I thought it was a fabulous debut. It’s full of tension and is scarier than any murder mystery. I’ll be excited to see what this author comes up with next.

An interesting and creepy book about a lonely mentally unstable woman. This was a page turner and will make you think how well do you actually know anyone.

Wow! A fantastic, gripping read. This got me interested right from the off and I raced through it. Told from different characters perspectives this book has everything a good psychological thriller needs.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC in return for an honest and unbiased opinion.

Honestly? I don't know what to say about this book because while it had the promise of a brilliantly creepy thriller I just couldn't get into it. And I must be in the minority because everyone else seems to love it and can't say enough about it!

I don't know, maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind, maybe I found the unformatted ARC difficult to follow or maybe I just found the monologuing endless. Whatever it is, THROUGH THE WALL was a sad fail for me. And it is so disappointing because I was really looking forward to it.

I might come back to it with a retail version and see if that has any bearing on my enjoyment of it.

The premise was exciting. The Prologue was enthralling. Locked in a psychiatric unit with the same mundane normality for both the patients and the staff. But who is it that is locked away? Who is the patient? And who is the mysterious visitor that comes every time with the boyfriend remaining in the visiting room? This alone promised compelling reading to come.

THROUGH THE WALL is basically just that. The lives in an apartment block where two residents yearn for the other more exciting life "through the wall" that they envision their neighbour living instead.

Lexie and Tom are together and trying for a baby. Their sex life is governed by the ovulation stick and punctuated with the promise of a child...that never comes. It is an putting enormous strain on their relationship and inevitably takes it toll.

Harriet lives "through the wall" next door. Her sex life is governed by her inert loneliness and the need to feel something, anything...even if it is through sex with faceless nameless strangers. Her lavish parties with people she has only just met to fill her flat with sound and laughter and happiness. Anything but loneliness. Anything but nothing.

Lexie and Tom have everything Harriet had before she lost it. She is miserable and begins to see their life as the one she should be enjoying. Knowing everything about her neighbours "through the wall", Harriet wants what Lexie has and will stop at nothing to get it...at any cost.

Harriet is "Single White Female" NEXT LEVEL. She is super creepy as she stalks Lexie and Tom in her bid to get what she believes she is owed.

THROUGH THE WALL is incredibly slow to start that I found almost glacial but covers a multitude of sins throughout such as obsession, lies, secrets, jealousy, fertility, stalking and mental health issues. The chapters are told in alternate narratives by Lexie and Harriet respectively and are relatively short and snappy.

Unfortunately, I found THROUGH THE WALL to have so much monologuing and not enough dialogue that it just seemed endless. It was almost depressing reading Harriet's self absorption into a life she believes should be hers as well as Lexie's endless attempts to fall pregnant. I couldn't connect to either character and in the end I just gave up.

But, as I said, it could have been my frame of mind or even the incredibly bad formatting of the ARC which I found incredibly difficult to follow. I will endeavour to pick up a retail copy of this book another time and hope I will better enjoy it then. I don't want to completely give up on it, as I really do want to find out what happens and discover just who it is locked behind those doors of the psychiatric unit.

This is not the end...this is just how it was for me just now. I look forward to giving THROUGH THE WALL another go at another time. I just feel bad that I didn't enjoy it.

I would like to thank #CarolineCorcoran, #NetGalley and #AvonUK for an ARC of #ThroughTheWall in exchange for an honest review.

So you've heard the old adage "the grass is always greener on the other side?" Well, Through the Wall is based on that concept. Lexie and Harriett are neighbours and both, despite having never physically met, covet each others seemingly perfect lives. But there's no knowing what lies behind that projected facade when everything they know about one another has been learned through social media. This is, at its heart, a cautionary tale of how people can stage-manage their lives online to portray them in a certain, more flattering, light than is really the case. We probably all do it but it certainly does not mean you know a particular person as it is easy to show just want we want the world to see and nothing more.

This is a slow-burning work of psychological suspense and one that has quite a bit of filler included within its pages. Perhaps a tighter edit could've made it crisper. It's also quite formulaic and if you read these type of books often you will likely guess what is about to happen long before it actually does. That said, I persevered to see where it would lead. The writing style takes a bit of getting used to but once you have it's a smooth ride from there on in. One aspect that the author excelled at was building a creepy atmosphere and a tension between two people who have ever even met before and I enjoyed these elements. There was also a good use of emotion. Many thanks to Avon for an ARC.

Lexie and Harriett are next door neighbors. Both of them have issues but when this novel opens, one of them is hospitalized for her mental health. Which one? The story alternates their voices. Are they both reliable narrators? No spoilers but know that Harriett, a talented woman, has been left by her love interest and that Lexie is struggling with infertility and other concerns. The grass isn't necessarily greener but that doesn't mean one won't want to try it there. Thanks to net galley for the ARC. This one zips along.

I already had a copy of this book on my kindle when I was gifted the paperback edition by the publisher. I choose to read the paperback edition. Theres nothing nice than the feel and smell of a new book!

The book is about two neighbours, Lexie and Harriet. They've never met. Harriet is a successful musical composer. Lexie and Tom are a young couple grieving after Lexie had had a miscarriage. Harriet has secrets, she's lonely and often throws parties just to have some company. But the walls are thin. So Harriet and Lexie often hear what goes on in each others flat. Harriet longs for the life she thinks Lexie has.

This book does take a wee while to get started, stick with it, you wont be disappointed. Once I got into the story, I could not put it down. The chapters are told alternately by Harriet and Lexie, who intrigued me. The story covers; obsession, lies, jealousy, secrets, controlling behaviour, mental health issues, stalking and fertility issues. This is a good psychological thriller. It is a bit obvious (I thought) where this story was going, but that never puts me off. A great read.

I would like to thank Netgalley, Avon Books UK and the author Caroline Corcoran for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Through The Wall is THE most intensely, scary thriller I’ve read!!
Lexie and Tom live in a nice apartment in London, Harriet is their next door neighbour but they don’t know each other, they can just hear each other through the wall. This is definitely a book I shan’t be divulging any plot spoils in as you have to read this yourself. Yes it starts off a bit slow but stick with it this part is making you feel for all characters and get to know their situations and their histories so you feel the punch much, much harder. I was twenty minutes off finishing this and had to do dinner but I couldn’t hardly eat any as I was so swept up with the drama of Will she won’t she! By the end it felt like I’d run a marathon. This a dark, intense thriller that I could not put down and finished in hours!! Well done Caroline Corcoran for making me feel like this. A very different disturbing thriller.
I would like to thank Netgalley and Avon Books UK for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

I found this a strange read, in turns frustrating and gripping, with characters I couldn't get a handle on and a storyline that seemed all over the place.
Harriet is a successful musical composer, living next door to Lexie and Tom, a young couple grieving following a miscarriage and keen to start a family.

It's a slow burn and had I not read a review to urge readers to keep going until Spring, I'd have given up. However, they were right, it's worth sticking with, but, only just. Overall, an OK read.

Thanks to NetGalley, Avon Books and the author for the opportunity to preview this book in exchange for my honest review.

I’m really excited to have been asked to be part of the blog tour for this book. It will be released on the 3rd of October 2019, and my blog will be published on the 6th November 2019.
I received a copy of the book in advance via the publisher, Avon, and NetGalley in return for an honest review as part of my blog.
This is a true cautionary tale that we shouldn’t judge people based on what they allow us to see on social media. It is not the real person, only a glimpse of what they want us to see. A perception of their life that they want everyone to believe they are living.
Also, we should be careful about what we put on social media!
Harriett and Lexie are neighbours in a swanky London apartment building, yet they have never met. Both have secrets or are going through hard times yet purely based on their social media presence, you would think that each of them had the perfect life, and both of them are jealous of the other.
However, one of them lets her secrets engulf her to the point of putting her neighbour’s life in danger.
We alternate between the to women, and it is very cleverly done as one will hear the other ‘through the wall’, and then we will go to the next chapter, and we will see what was actually happening. There are also chapters showing the past which all lead up to the present. These can be quite confusing, so you have to look at the beginning of the section for the month of the year. If it is there, you are in the present, if it isn’t you are in the past. Once you are into the story, however, you soon get to grips with where you are in the story.
I was surprised by the fertility element to the story, and it was very overbearing. I am childless by choice, so it was hard for me to relate to Lexie’s side of the story. I’ve always been a big believer in people putting far too much of an emphasis on getting pregnant then it becomes an obsession, as it did for Lexie. I think if people relaxed and enjoyed their lives, if they are capable of getting pregnant, then it will happen organically as they will be calmer. If they lived for the moment and were happy with their situation as it was instead of fretting, then their bodies would be in a more peaceful state. Lexie was so stressed to the point where it wouldn’t have surprised me if she had destroyed everything she had all for wanting a baby. She did have a good life, and she couldn’t see it through her obsession. However, as I say, I will never understand the desire to have children as at 41 years old, I have never wanted and never will want them. The fertility issues didn’t annoy me or ruin the book for me; it was just hard for me to relate to Lexie. I did still feel sorry for her when she had setbacks and upsets.
This was a really fantastic psychological thriller; I didn’t know what approach the end of the book was going to take. Was the ending going to be clear cut or was everything not as we were expecting, just as social media is not everything that is shown to us? Everything was cleverly done, and I had to reread the last page twice to make sure I had read it right! A brilliant read.

I did not get 'into' this book and found it on the whole boring as far as i read. I therefore did not complete the book.

Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and secure in it – and loved, thanks to her boyfriend Tom.

But recently, something’s not been quite right. A book out of place. A wardrobe door left open. A set of keys going missing…

Tom thinks Lexie’s going mad – but then, he’s away more often than he’s at home nowadays, so he wouldn’t understand.

Because Lexie isn’t losing it. She knows there’s someone out there watching her. And, deep down, she knows there’s nothing she can do to make them stop…

Okay, so - wow. I'm not the hugest fan of thrillers, but I couldn't put this one down. I read the first 20% in the evening, then I got up and read the rest of the book over the course of the day - I just couldn't stop! I really liked the alternating point of views of both Lexie and Harriet. I felt like Harriet's chapters came across as quite sinister, even just general day to day chapters, she came across as quite unhinged.. I actually felt quite anxious reading the book, but I just had to know what was going to happen, especially with how the book starts.

Very cleverly written with a fast pace, especially from 75% plus - I'd definitely recommend it.

How well do you know your neighbours?????
A slow burner to start with but then I was gripped. Two neighbours can hear everything between the thin walls that separate them. They wish that they had each other's life. A real page turner and a fantastic psychological thriller. Yes this book is that good!!!!! A bloody good rollercoaster of a read which I found very hard to put down and finally turned the last page at 2.am. Gripping, heartbraking, shocking and scary. You need to read this book, an easy five stars and so Highly Recommended.
I would like to thank the author, Avon Books UK and Netgalley for the ARC in return for giving an honest review.

I had really high hopes for this book.. It was a really good story but the style of the writing was a bit of a let down. It was a little confusing at times. I was intrigued with the characters and the setting though. All in all a great story that keeps you hooked.
Thank you netgalley for the opportunity to read this

400 nail biting kindle flicks

‘ the creepiest psychological thriller of 2019’ I kinda warily read just before starting this book, ‘ye ye’ I thought.....
But it is
And then some
Lexie and Tom live in a London apartment
Harriet lives ‘through the wall’, next door
Lexie and Tom have everything
Harriet did, then lost it
Harriet wants what Lexie has and she will stop at literally nothing to get it
Loving psychological thrillers I have read some super scary books on stalkers, Harriet takes it to the next level, she has no filter, psychopath extraordinaire and I loathed her, at one point I wanted to turn the page and read ‘oh hi, author here, Ive changed my mind and Lexie and Tom will be ok and Harriet has gone away’......( I didn’t really but you get me? ) as I say I loathed her and just occasionally, the author did a very clever trick and almost made me like her!!!!!!
I cant really put into words how dark, intense, cloyingly wonderful this book is and how I started reading it laying on the bed and at one point found I was standing up unable to take my eyes of what was happening
The first sentence is as chilling as the last, there are no ‘breaks in story’ no respite and no get out clauses
This is a full on rampage of a read
Loved it
10/10
5 Stars

I had heard lots of great things about this book and was excited to read it - the front cover looked fab and almost had a creepy feel to it!
However, I found the book quite slow going over all and it felt a long time before anything exciting happened in the book. I enjoyed the two different perspectives and finding out their back stories; Harriet suffering with mental health issues after an abusive boyfriend and Lexie struggling with infertility.

Although there were some twists and turns, I felt that the book didn’t live up to my expectations and I did predict the ending too. I didn’t find the characters very likeable and it was quite repetitive at times, but saying that I did enjoy it and would read more by this author in the future!

Thrilling story, great plot and characters that keep you guessing right til the end. Great for fans of this genre. Really enjoyable.

This is an addictive read. It centres on a block of flats in Central London, in Zone One, where people exist together but rarely make friends with their neighbours and others within the same building, leaving them to live their own lives. It is not the case here.

Harriet and Lexie live next door to each other and the narrative is told by each of them in turn as the story progresses. Harriet is a composer of music for musicals and, on the surface, appears to be successful. Lexie lives with her husband who appears successful in his job and Lexie works from home as a freelance copywriter, which is something she chose to do.

They can hear certain things through the wall between them and Lexie and Harriet become obsessed with each other, always looking up information on the Internet and trying to find out as much as they can about where the other is going and what is happening. They both feel the other has a perfect life but this is definitely not the case.

From one side obsession leads to stalking which is nothing new to this person. There is so much more to the book than this and many topics are dealt with in an interesting and caring manner. I do not want to give anything away.

Thank you to NetGalley, Avon Books UK and Caroline Corcoran for my ARC in return for my honest review.

Highly addictive read and totally recommended.