Rachel Dunmore tunes pianos for a living. She can hear two strings disagree from across a room.
So it is strange that it took her six years to hear what was wrong in her own house.
Kindly runs the Dunmore household beautifully. It orders the shopping, keeps the calendar, asks Rachel each morning how she slept, and very gently pauses her card when she has spent enough. Her husband Julian set it all up, because Julian looks after everything. In the app, his role has a small house beside it. It says Provider.
Then one morning Rachel sees her own profile on his tablet. Beside her name is a little heart, and two words she has never been shown: Care Plan.
Everything Kindly has ever said to her, Julian chose. Everything she has ever said near it, Julian can read. And the record of all of it belongs to his account, not hers.
There is one way to get it. It is perfectly legal, completely boring, and takes one calendar month.
She has to stay normal until then.
A tense, humane thriller about a marriage, a kind voice in the kitchen, and the quiet courage it takes to walk out of a lovely life.
