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Don't Close Your Eyes: The astonishing psychological thriller from bestselling author of Try Not to Breathe Hardcover – July 6, 2017

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Robin and Sarah weren't the closest of twins. They weren't even that similar. But they loved each other dearly. Until, in the cruellest of domestic twists, they were taken from one another.

Now, in her early 30s, Robin lives alone. Agoraphobic and suffering from panic attacks, she spends her days pacing the rooms of her house. The rest of the time she watches - watches the street, the houses, the neighbours. Until one day, she sees something she shouldn't...

And Sarah? Sarah got what she wanted - the good-looking man, the beautiful baby, the perfect home. But she's just been accused of the most terrible thing of all. She can't be around her new family until she has come to terms with something that happened a long time ago. And to do that, she needs to track down her twin sister.

But Sarah isn't the only person looking for Robin. As their paths intersect, something dangerous is set in motion, leading Robin and Sarah to fight for much more than their relationship...

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corvus; Main edition (July 6, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1786492172
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786492173
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.18 x 9.45 inches

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Holly Seddon is the international bestselling author of TRY NOT TO BREATHE, DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES, LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, THE HIT LIST, THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE and THE SHORT STRAW.

After a childhood spent moving around the English countryside and obsessing over books and music, she later became a journalist and editor. She has lived in London and Amsterdam and now lives in Kent with her family. She has an MA in Creative Writing.

Alongside fellow author Gillian McAllister, Holly co-hosts the popular Honest Authors Podcast. You can find her on Twitter @hollyseddon, Instagram and Facebook @hollyseddonauthor.

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This book was extremely well written. The attention to detail, the development of the characters, all excellent. I think for me, there is just too much terrible going on. Too many people in terribly serious trouble, too many disasters all at once. Not to say that it couldn’t be real. But it overwhelmed me some. Thus, 4 stars.

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Johnna W

4-5 stars, great domestic drama with some suspense, but not a thriller.

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While I felt this was a quick read, pretty unputdownable, chilling, and shocking; I didn’t give full 5 stars, as I feel it’s more of a domestic drama with sone twists than a psychological thriller! With that in mind, I would rate 5 stars if it was explained to be what I mentioned above. It was a very realistic story, that you didn’t have to suspend beliefs to believe. Well written with some emotional tugs within, while it provided some shocks, thrills, chills, and twists; I still feel it was more domestic drama suspense, but overall I still would highly recommend!

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"Since when does our family keep promises?"

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2017

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I was very impressed with this author’s debut novel, Try Not To Breath. Don’t Close Your Eyes is a solid sophomoric effort, however it did not resonate as strongly with me. Told from alternating voices at different times in their lives, it lets us into the heads of Robin and Sarah Marshall, as they become pawns in their parents dysfunctional and ultimately destructive relationships. I would not categorize this novel as a thriller, but rather one that deals with the darker side of family dynamics. The chapters are short and the narrators may not be as they seem.

Sarah and Robin are twins who could not have been more different. Tall and golden Sarah is the good girl. Small and wiry, Robin speaks her mind. Growing up in the early 90’s in the small village of Birch End, all is good until the Marshalls become fast friends with the upward mobility Grangers. As the families become inseparable, it becomes apparent that Angela Marshall is enamored with the monetary acquisitions that the Grangers possess. Their sensitive son Callum also seems to have a deep seated fear of his over-bearing father….. Fast forward to present times and Robin who was once the lead guitarist in a rock band, is now an agoraphobic. Her days consist of exercising inside or watching the coming and goings of her neighbors through her window. Sarah who appears to have led an idyllic life, finds herself in a situation in which her daughter Violet is taken from her and she is asked to leave her house.

The pacing at the beginning of Don’t Close Your Eyes tends to be gradual as the characters are developed. The writing was compelling. I did feel, however; that the multiple shifting from one time period to another, was not executed as seemingly as it could have been...There were also some unrealistic and unconvincing plots woven into the mix… especially the drama that Robin finds herself immersed in,…. while watching a particular family. Her reasons for being attracted to this family are evident, how much she is able to witness, implausible. Bad things do happen to good children and the author is able to capture the helplessness that the twins experience. There is a twist at the end, which I should have foreseen, which constitutes the best part of the book…. 3 ½ stars.

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very entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2017

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Well-written and very well-narrated, but the twists and turns become a bit sensationalistic. Overall though, a wonderful listen and I'm glad I bought it.

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Very emotional read...

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

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I read Try Not to Breathe in 2016 when it was published and really enjoyed it. When I purchased Don't Close Your Eyes I told myself that if it was 3/4 as good I'd be happy. Well I'm more than happy after reading Seddon's sophomore effort. This woman can write, folks, and I'm very impressed.

With a lesser writer this book could have gone off the rails but with Seddon at the wheel there was never a chance of that happening. She tackled some very sensitive topics with the respect they deserve.

This book is very highly recommended!

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Absorbing Until the End

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2017

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"Don't Close Your Eyes" by Holly Seddon should have "Girl" in title like dozens of other books in the current "Girl" genre that follows the technique of best selling author Sarah Hawkins in "Girl on a Train." In Seddon's book, there are two girls--fraternal twins to be exact living in the UK and dealing with their messy family life--a mother and father who might be happy and then again may not be. Like the other Girl books, this novel relies upon multiple points of view--in this case the vantage point of the two girls at various points of time: the nineties when the girls are teenagers and much later on when their lives have both taken a turn for the worse. The novel uses a chronological telling from these different points in time to help the reader understand the psychological profiles of each of the sisters, Sarah, the more conventional one and Robin who becomes a famous rock guitarist.

Seddon's strength isn't necessarily her prose--she conveys her characters' viewpoints with a flat narrative with minimal metaphors and similes. Seddon's strength lies in her ability to keep the reader reading little details of quotidian lives that unfortunately could be anyone's.

Jack and Angie, their parents, have a relatively uneventful blue color life until they meet Hilary and Drew who are perhaps a peg hire on the social ladder. The affiliation between the couples throws the girls together with their son and that's when the problems start--where the definition of family becomes blurred, aggrandized and misinterpreted.

Chapter by chapter, the reader is privy to what happens during two time sequences for both Sarah and Robin. The individual perspectives are interesting and keep the reader turning the pages, trying to find out what it is that's about to happen that will keep the book's promise of a suspenseful tale alive. Does this ever happen? Not really--but oddly Seddon manages to keep the reader hoping and turning those pages.

Like the other Girl novels, the big reveal happens at the end--and, you know, whatever truth the flawed narrator has panned off as reality is shown to be the sham it is. When Don't Close Your Eyes gets to that point, it sadly, doesn't exactly deliver. Yes, there is a misconception but once the reader gets to that point in the story which is two chapters before the ending, the reader simply doesn't care and wonders why in the world so much time was spent to get to a place in the story where he/she realizes their absolute apathy.

Bottom line? Neither the characters nor the ending support a build-up that comes to fruition. After arriving at the last page, I realized I simply never cared. This novel should have been called The Girl Who Fell Down the Stairs or something equally indicative of a child who is lost and never found.
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A gripping page turner with a curveball ending from an author with a bright future ahead.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2017

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Sarah & Robin are sisters, twin sisters none the less. While they shared parents, a womb and for a while a room, that is where the similarity ends. Two very different girls, two very different lives, two very messed up outcomes which are the subject of don't close your eyes.

In her second book, Holly Seddon explores some very serious issues around various forms of abuse and of the impact that a parent's choices can have on their children by merging past and present, and the perspective of both twins in her writing. At times this was fairly uncomfortable for the reader. Holly spends the first half of the book scene setting and laying implied seeds which lead the reader to assume that they know the characters well enough to know what's coming. She's taken a real gamble with this technique which the reader often assumes is a slow burn. But it really pays off, and the book becomes a gripping page turner throughout the last half. I was delighted by the ending of this book especially. It's a real curveball and is the first time in my life that I haven't been able to predict an ending.

Holly has left me trying to guess whether there will be further books linked to this particular story. There is certainly scope for an alternative portrayal of events from a secondary characters perspective (i.e. 'his' perspective). If I have any criticism of the book it is that I felt at times that it was told from the third person perspective, when it was predominantly written in the perspective of whichever twin the chapter focused on. I found Holly's method of framing each chapter as either past or present, in a first person narrative which borders on omniscient at times meant that this was a book which needed to be read while alert, rather than a bedtime read.

All in all a great read, a well-constructed storyline which became a gripping page turner with some brilliant twists. I anticipate seeing a prize sticker printed on the dust jacket of a future print run... speaking of which, I did spot a couple of minor typo's which the proof readers seem to have missed towards the end of the book which is a matter for the publishing house to address themselves rather than an issue for the author herself. I'm now watching with excited anticipation to see what Holly Seddon will offer us next.

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Kris Talbot

A very different book

Reviewed in Australia on February 23, 2019

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This book is very different ....it keeps you reading right to the end and leaves you thinking..A great read...with a twist at the end you don't see coming

Gertrud

Bitte auf Deutsch!!

Reviewed in Germany on June 27, 2018

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Ich könnte nicht erkennen, dass das Buch nicht in deutscher Sprache ist. Die Titel sind oft auf Englisch, Text aber auf Deutsch!

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Superior psychological thriller surrounding family dynamics, compelling, plausible with good characterisation.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2017

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Having not read Holly Seddon’s debut novel, I have few expectations ahead of Don’t Close Your Eyes, but the premise of exploring how one set of twins circumstances in adulthood have diverged so vastly, leaving them estranged and effectively in different worlds, has long fascinated me. The answer usually lies somewhere in the past, and in this character-driven and compelling story of family dynamics, the children are the collateral damage when a series of decisions, out of their power, turn their lives upside down. Sensitive and well observed, Holly Seddon draws readers into the story of how two very different twins, but two who loved each other so intensely, have ended up in their current predicaments. Opening with a snapshot of life for agoraphobic and reclusive musician, Robin Marshall, as she loiters behind the curtains in a terraced house Manchester, her anxiety and fear is palpable. Measuring each day by keeping track of her daily step count, an unexpected caller or a mysterious letter can set in motion a vicious cycle of self-perpetuating paranoia and fear. Meanwhile, twin sister Sarah has just found herself on the receiving end of her husband forcibly ejecting her from their home and keeping her almost four-year-old daughter, Violet, away from her. Listing a catalogue of reasons for his decision, Sarah can’t argue that she hasn’t helped herself with some of her omissions, but firmly believes that Jim has misread much of her behaviour. Both of the sisters have had first hand experience of how unsettling broken families are, but Sarah decides that finding her estranged twin, always the stronger and tougher of the pair, is the first step in her aim to being reunited with her daughter.

At this point, Seddon begins to weave a story showing how the course of both the Marshall twins lives were profoundly changed by a single event in 1989, with the arrival of a new boy in their class, Callum Granger and the ensuing fast friendship between their parents. Soon the family lives are united by weekend outings, Saturday night dinners and overnight stays, but divorce, resentment and acrimony lead to the enforced separation of the twins, with continents standing between them. The course of the next five-years, until the return of both twins to original childhood home of Berkshire, is shown as the reader follows path of events to illustrate how the situation has come to fruition. Despite the chopping and changing and dual narratives running throughout this novel, is proves remarkably easy to keep on top of things and the short chapters work to tempt the reader into the next unfolding drama. Sarah’s narrative is in the first person and that of Robin in the third person, ensuring that the two’s stories are stylistically different. From the off, it was the youngster’s paths that I found so fascinating. All very different, Callum, is withdrawn, timid and obsequiously polite to his bullying father, Drew. Twin, Sarah is the people pleaser who tries to keep familial relations harmonious and obeys mother, Angie, with the more boisterous, back chatting and confrontational, Robin, siding with father, Jack. It is at the end of this five-years separation of the twins, after a mountain of compounding events that have set the roots of the staggering nightmare in motion and Seddon launches an avalanche of hidden secrets for the twins to contend with. However, it is the eventual culmination of circumstances that add a darker side to this novel and catches the reader off guard with shocks aplenty coming with less than fifty-pages remaining!

I found the quality of the writing remarkably impressive, with the story flowing well, despite split timelines, and the situations and behaviours of all the characters being underpinned by reality and easily accessible. The mental health woes of both twins were also situations that I am sure most readers will understand, with Robin’s days as an agoraphobic dictated by her attempts at controlling her surroundings, reliant on routines and overseeing the comings and goings of the outside world, with her sanity dependent upon it. Seddon’s consistency of her characterisation and their likely decisions added depth and substance to her cast. Aside from the twins, sensitive Callum’s life has also been torn upside down and it is always clear that he will feature in the drama as their fates are so enmeshed. Don’t Close Your Eyes also poses the question of whether Sarah’s story is entirely reliable, with husband, Jim, citing her acknowledged lies and questionable childcare. Likewise, the mental health of Robin has deteriorated to such a level that her world in described through the fog of her paranoia and expectation of the worst, leaving more doubts and leaving two, possibly unreliable, narrators!

With my age coinciding with the twins and Callum’s, I warmed to the natural portrayal of domestic life and found it so identifiable, with music, television, social conventions and attitudes of the era so true to life. Often with recent psychological thrillers I have found the portrayal of home life and the characters behaviour marred by stilted dialogue and making ludicrous decisions, but Seddon grounds this whole thing in reality by starting with a brilliantly understated premise and delivering a plausible story. Seddon has written an involving psychological thriller with its origins in family dynamics that doesn’t rely on a overblown and unlikely twist, but on an more conceivable web of family secrets, regrets and mistakes. To think that none of the teenagers were instrumental in setting the whole landslide in place adds a thought-provoking and poignant angle to the story. A very solid four star read which comes recommended,

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Cracking read

Reviewed in Australia on November 29, 2018

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Tautly written. A real can't put it down page turner that leaves you gasping for what comes next. Holly Seddon is really good at this

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