Flo intends to scare him off with the shotgun, only to discover that it is not loaded with blanks. Late at night, a man appears in the house. Nora also discovers that her phone has gone missing, and that a set of footprints is seen leading from the garage to the house.
Nora is stunned.Īs the weekend progresses, Melanie leaves early because she misses her family too much, while Nora and Nina note that Flo has obsessive behavior toward Clare thanks to an unknown incident in which Clare saved Flo’s life. Clare explains to Nora that she needed to tell Nora face-to-face that she is marrying James, Nora’s ex-boyfriend whom Nora never really got over. That evening, Nora goes out for a run, and encounters Clare on her way to the house. Tom is made uncomfortable by a shotgun kept in the house, even though it is only loaded with blanks. A few others are also in attendance, including Melanie, a new mother and old roommate of Flo and Clare’s, and Tom, a gay playwright who works with Nora at the Royal Theatre Company. The summer house belongs to the aunt of Clare’s best friend and hen host, Florence “Flo” Clay. Nora and Nina rent a car to drive to Northumberland to stay in a summer house in Kiedler Forest near the village of Stanebridge. Both girls decide to attend the weekend as long as the other goes. Nora consults her friend Nina de Souza, who has also been invited. When the novel begins, Nora, a twenty-six year-old writer living in London, wonders why she has been invited to Clare Cavendish’s hen do (bachelorette party weekend), because she and her old college friend have barely spoken for years. The novel tells the story of unreliable, amnesiac narrator Nora Shaw as she attempts to recall the events of a bachelorette weekend in which a man was murdered that both she and the bride-to-be loved. In a Dark, Dark Wood is a psychological murder mystery novel by Ruth Ware. NOTE: This study guide refers to the April 2016 First Scout Press/Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition of In a Dark, Dark Wood.
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