After a holiday accident that nearly kills her, 32-year old Emily and her husband Freddie move from London into Larkin Lodge, a beautiful country house on remote Dartmoor, far away from their lives and friends in London. It should help heal her and be a wonderful fresh start but soon after moving in, Emily starts to feel that there’s something wrong.
There’s a terrible presence emanating from the room on the third floor. While Freddie doesn’t sense anything wrong, Emily can’t bear to even step across the threshold, and as the darkness she feels in the room upstairs spreads like mould further into the building, and strange occurrences start happening, Emily becomes convinced that someone was murdered in the house and is now haunting it.
But there are no records of any one ever dying in the property, not even old in their beds. In fact, it’s been a happy home for all who’ve lived here. Except, it seems, for them. Ever since they moved into the house, their marriage has started to crumble. There’s a sense of distrust. With Freddie growing distant and irritable and dismissing her concerns about the house as part of her post-sepsis syndrome, and with cracks in their relationship building with each day, Emily starts doing some digging into the secrets of Larkin Lodge and the locals who’ve lived there.
But how can she solve a murder that never happened? And can she solve it in time to prevent another?
What if you could have the best of the person you once fell in love with, and all it took was one little murder – a murder no one could ever know took place?
Would you do it?
If so, then Larkin Lodge will be happy to help.
Book Info: Print length: 336 pages. Published by Orion on 5th June 2025

My Thoughts:
HOLY SH*T. What the hell did I just read? and more importantly how the hell do I review it without spoilers?
Fans of Sarah Pinborough and the incredible Behind Her Eyes with the tagline #WTFthatending should be getting very excited. Sarah’s new book WE LIVE HERE NOW is out next June 2025. I was lucky enough to read an early copy a few weeks ago. I still can’t work out how to write this review.
The story revolves around Emily and Freddie. They are a married couple who have moved from London into a huge country house on the edges of Dartmoor. Emily is recovering from an almost-tragic holiday accident which left her in a coma. The move is meant to help in her healing. However, Freddie still has to commute to London for work. This leaves Emily alone for days on end isolated and far from her friends and support network.
She’s struggling emotionally and physically since the accident and begins to see and hear strange things in the house. Convinced the house is haunted, she starts investigating it’s past and starts to uncover some really dark secrets.
That is ALL I am saying about the plot, but I will say this: Sarah Pinborough has a really vivid and disturbed imagination and in my opinion, WE LIVE HERE NOW is as equally brilliant as Behind Her Eyes.
Clever, spooky, amusing and absolutely UNPUTDOWNABLE, the queen of cross-genre WTF fiction has done it again,
5 HUGE STARS
HERE’S WHAT SOME OTHER AUTHORS HAVE TO SAY:
Eerie, clever and darkly funny, We Live Here Now puts an entirely fresh spin on the haunted house novel. The twists are genius, the ending so satisfying – I loved it. Sarah Pinborough’s best book yet. ― Nicci Cloke
‘Genre-bending and cunning, We Live Here Now is a riveting modern Gothic, full of the clever twists and surprises that have become Sarah Pinborough’s trademark. I’m a big fan’ ― Harlan Coben
‘This book shows Sarah Pinborough at the absolute top of her game, I read the whole thing in a one day frenzy, and the twist blew my mind’ ― Lisa Jewell
‘Stunning. Shocking. Terrifying. You know it’s coming, but you’ll never guess what it is. We Live Here Now is a twisting, funny and frightening journey from calm to storm, from a dream right into a nightmare. I loved every page. No one tells stories like Sarah Pinborough’ ― Chris Whitaker