The house was designed to protect her. The protection was the trap.
Running from a life she barely survived, Clover has built a second self. New name, new county, new husband. Beckett's remote home on the Devon coast anticipates her every need. It warms the floors before she wakes. It learns the temperature she likes her bath. It knows things about her she has never told a living soul. Twelve weeks pregnant and alone five days a week, she tells herself this is what it feels like to be loved by a man who pays attention.
Then the house begins to show her things it shouldn't know.
A name she buried five years ago, spoken aloud by a kitchen speaker. A photograph of a child no algorithm should be able to find. A forged medical alert that sends her driving through the dark. Every time she reports what she's seen, the system shows nothing, and her husband asks if she's been sleeping.
The house is the only witness to what the house is doing. And Clover has a history that means no one will believe her. Her only weapons are a pencil, a plug-in kettle, and a friend from Bristol.
In the tradition of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby and Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, Mind How You Go is a psychological thriller with the prose and moral complexity of literary fiction. A novel about what it means to be known by a system that was built to keep you.
