📖 Book Review ~ The Treehouse by B P Walter

Harper Collins
One More Chapter
3 July 2025

Thanks to the publisher for my copy of this book

 

A summer holiday. A family secret. A split-second decision that will change everything. 

Twenty years ago, a summer holiday ended in tragedy for the Palmer family.

No one has spoken of it since.

Until a new tv series plays out the horrifying events of that night.

As the family are forced to relive that fateful trip, is it possible that each person is hiding their own secrets, and is someone willing to do whatever it takes to keep their past firmly in the past…

📖 My Review..

A recent television series causes the lives of brothers Kieran and Robert Palmer to implode as it reveals secrets from something that happened over twenty years ago, an event which they had thought buried forever. As teenagers they spent a fateful summer in Cornwall with their parents and during this time they became involved in something which would have a lasting effect on all of their lives going forward. The significance of the treehouse, such a brooding character, plays out its own role in the story and as we become part of the narrative we watch in horror as Kieran and Robert act out their fantasies with terrible consequences. 

Taut with tension, and alive with deceit, a tangled web of secrets and lies start to emerge and with such a set of unstable narrators you are never quite sure where the truth ends and the lies begin. I raced through the story in just few hours, compelled to read further just to see how this complex story would play out and I wasn’t disappointed. There are twists and turns aplenty, with the last third of the story revealing far more about this dysfunctional family than I could have ever thought possible. 

Well written, with a clever sense of time and place, and with totally unlikeable characters who worm their way into your mind, The Treehouse is a complicated story of murder, tragedy and deadly family secrets.

About the Author

B P Walter was born and raised in Essex. After spending his childhood and teenage years reading compulsively, he worked in bookshops then went to the University of Southampton to study Film and English followed by an MA in Film & Cultural Management. He is an alumnus of the Faber Academy and formerly worked in social media coordination for Waterstones in London.

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