When she wakes chained to a beam in her own attic with no memory of how she got there, a woman must piece together the life she thought she knew. As physical pain and a chemical haze fade, small details — a neatly placed bucket, an emptied attic, the sound of a distant fridge — become clues to who might have done this and why. Alternating between the present terror and the memories of a marriage fraying at the edges, Beneath the Attic Beam is a taut psychological domestic thriller about control, intimacy, and survival. Tense, intimate, and unrelenting, the novel follows one woman’s desperate attempts to escape both the physical bonds that hold her and the emotional patterns that may have led her here.
When she wakes chained to a beam in her own attic with no memory of how she got there, a woman must piece together the life she thought she knew. As physical pain and a chemical haze fade, small details — a neatly placed bucket, an emptied attic, the sound of a distant fridge — become clues to wh...