When Alice moves in with her partner Leo into The Circle, a gated private housing society of exclusive houses near Finsbury Park in London, she feels hopeful about their new life together. Alice and Leo have been seeing each other for twenty months, although they've been meeting only over the weekends due to their different locations. Alice's life in The Circle is beautifully described and I really enjoyed reading about her neighbours, whom she tries to get to know. She wants to make friends and quickly identifies Eve, Maria and Tamsin as the potential candidates. Not a long time after she moves into The Circle, Alice finds out about Nina, the therapist who lived in the house before and was murdered in the house. Appalled at the discovery, Alice calls up Ben, the real estate agent who sold them the house and asks about it. Ben delicately informs her that Leo was aware of the history of the house and bought it because it was available at a lower price. The fact that Leo kept s