![]() She sees uniformed policemen stationed outside her room. Worse than her physical state, she is afflicted by memory loss and a nagging sense of guilt. In a Dark, Dark Wood opens in a hospital room, where a young woman wakes with contusions, scratches and a woeful head injury. No cell service, of course, and no neighbors, with a long, rutted, unpaved driveway between the hens and civilization. ![]() The titular woods, so striking by day, turn blank and threatening when the sun goes down. In the U.S., women celebrating an impending wedding might be more likely to party with Magic Mike, but the bachelorette bash in Ware's book takes place in a modernist glass house in the English countryside. That one of the main characters here is nicknamed "Flopsy" doesn't help things along any. Like so many phrases that describe all-female gatherings, such as quilting bee or kaffeeklatsch, that hen business has a slight cluck of the patronizing to it. ![]() ![]() I am slightly embarrassed to admit I had never before encountered the term "hen party" before reading Ruth Ware's suspenseful debut novel In a Dark, Dark Wood. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title In a Dark, Dark Wood Author Ruth Ware ![]()
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