The Watcher at Wren House

Some houses hold their silence differently to others.

Wren House sits on a cliff above the Cornish sea, three stories of grey Victorian stone with long watching windows and a room on the top floor that no one has opened in years. It has been waiting, with the particular patience of buildings that have witnessed things they cannot say, for the right person to arrive.

Margot Finch is a forensic grief counsellor — a woman who has built her career on reading the architecture of loss in other peop...