Factory Reset

When Hannah Weir came home from two nights away, the house didn't know who she was.The little screen in the kitchen glowed with a cheerful welcome. Let's get to know your home. Every setting gone, every name forgotten, every camera clip wiped. A power cut, her husband said. It reset itself in the night.Hannah describes houses for a living. She photographs the scuffs on the skirting boards and the stains on the carpets so that nobody can lie about them later. She noticed the bleach in the utility room, the stripped bed in the spare room, the car that was suddenly at a garage. She noticed that her energy meter had never lost power at all.That same night, at the end of their quiet Bristol estate, a young delivery rider was left in the road by a car that did not stop. The police want footage from every house on the corner. Theirs is the only one with nothing.Everything the house knew about that night has been erased. Almost everything.A gripping, humane domestic thriller about a marriage, a lie, and what you do when you are the only one holding the proof.