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How does Sleep Tight by Rachel Abbott end, please?

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WickedWitchoftheNorthWest · 24/07/2014 06:17

I was 3/4 through sleep tight when Amazon removed it from my kindle. This is because my Prime membership expired and I decided not to renew, and had borrowed the book from the kindle lending library.

I wasn't really enjoying the book hat much anyway but I would like to know what the "twist" at the end was, please. If anyone has read it and can be bothered, would you be kind enough to message me withy the ending? Thank you!

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WickedWitchoftheNorthWest · 24/07/2014 19:19

No one? Oh well guess it was a long shot....

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Hiphopopotamus · 24/07/2014 19:22

I've just finished reading it. How far did you get?

WickedWitchoftheNorthWest · 24/07/2014 19:33

I got to the part where Robert and the police realised they were on Alderney.

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Hiphopopotamus · 24/07/2014 20:46

Warning - major spoilers ahead - though not sure why you'd click on a thread about a book ending if you didn't want to know the book ending!

Ok - Robert gets to Alderney and the police learn he's there so follow him. Robert finds olivia and the kids and takes the kids. There's a tussle on top of the cliff top with Robert trying to take a leap off the cliff with the kids, but the police and olivia sort it out and everyone is fine. They then arrest Robert for Dans murder.

The 'twist' is that Tom works out that Robert actually killed Dan nine years ago, not a few days ago. He faked the whole dan moving to Australia thing. The blood in the house was faked by olivia, Emma and Samir and they used Samir's blood, which he had gradually taken from his body over a period of a few days. They wanted to set Robert up so he would get arrested. (He also killed Olivia's parents - not sure if you got to that bit)

I've read better books!

sarahandFuck · 24/07/2014 20:49

Robert gets to them and attacks Olivia. He tricks a local woman into giving away their whereabouts.

She has sent the children to hide in an old bomb shelter bunker, which is the room in the drawing from earlier in the story, but they come back to the house because they are scared. He has tied Olivia up and is threatening to rape her but instead when the children return he grabs them and disappears.

The police find her and a search for the children starts.

They find Robert with them at the top of a cliff and he's trying to hang onto them all and jump. They break free and are safe.

I have forgotten what happens to Robert at that point, but Olivia and the children are safe.

It was all just a bit predictable really, so you've probably already guessed all this.

One thing that I think was a flaw in the plot was that Olivia and the children had been to Alderney three times already before they moved there, so they seemed more local and not like newcomers when they finally made their escape. But Olivia had to change their names and dye their hair when they escaped, so they looked different anyway. She wouldn't have been able to do that for a week's holiday and not have Robert notice the change in hair colour, so I felt that was a wobbly bit of the plot.

The twist at the end was that Robert had killed Olivia's previous boyfriend (Dan) and buried him on Saddleworth Moor.

Robert had stalked her through college without her noticing and was the person chasing her at the start of the book. Dan was the man whose arms she ran into and Robert killed him and her parents.

Olivia has worked this out because he took her to the burial site and made a comment that she could be standing over a body right at that moment and never know it.

So she confided in Dan's brother, but instead of going to the police and having them dig for a body they decided to take blood from Dan's brother, spread it around Olivia and Robert's house, have people claim to have seen Dan visit and set him up for the fake murder of Dan several years after he really did murder him.

For that to work Olivia had to claim to the police that she slept with Dan's brother and he was Jasmine's real father. Because they took DNA from Jasmine to match it to the blood in the house and knew it would show up as being from her uncle rather than her father. So they had to pretend her uncle was her father and her father was her uncle.

WickedWitchoftheNorthWest · 25/07/2014 05:59

Thank you very much Hipho and Sarah! You saved me a few quid and several tedious hours of reading. I had guessed all that except for the saved blood from Samir part (although it was obvious he was involved in some way) and I'm sure you both had, too, by the time you got to where I was in the book.

I hadn't thought of the plot hole you mention, Sarah, but of course you're completely right. I also found it impossible to believe a man as controlling as Robert would have "allowed" Olivia to go on holiday to Anglesey with the children without him for several weeks a year. And the ending sounds contrived to say the least.

Anyway, I really appreciate you both taking your time to help me and therefore stop me always wondering about this in the back of my mind!

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