# The Family Friend

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- Book: [The Family Friend](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-douglas/the-family-friend) ([The Family Friend.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-douglas/the-family-friend.md))
- Authors: [Claire Douglas](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-douglas)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0597-898-9
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When Imogen is told she’s inherited a country mansion near Bath, she thinks it must be a mistake. She last saw its owner, reclusive artist Dorothea Roe, sixteen years ago: a summer which changed her life for ever. Once Imogen and her partner Josh settle into the house, she dares to hope that this is the start of a new life. Yet Imogen can’t stop wondering why a woman she barely knew would leave her everything. And when she discovers a box with her name on it in the artist’s abandoned studio, she’s sure Dorothea was trying to send her a message before she died. What if her death wasn’t an accident? Could it be tangled in Imogen’s own dark family history? And why is she feeling watched all of a sudden?