A01=Kate Collins
Author_Kate Collins
breton folklore
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contemporary gothic novel
creepy summer reading
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Product details
- ISBN 9781788169301
- Weight: 439g
- Dimensions: 214 x 134mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'In her beautifully written debut, Kate Collins gives the haunted house novel a refreshing renovation, while retaining a deliciously chilling atmosphere that fans of Shirley Jackson will love. I was entranced' Francine Toon, author of Pine
The perfect place to destroy a family...
The Reeve stands on the edge of the Dorset cliffs, awaiting its next inhabitants. Despite Orla's misgivings, her husband insists this house will be the perfect place to raise their two children.
In 1976, Lydia moves to Dorset as a nanny for a family grieving their patriarch. She soon starts to hear and feel things that cannot be real, but her bereaved employer does not listen when Lydia tells her something is wrong.
Separated by forty years, both Lydia and Orla realise that the longer they stay at the Reeve, the more deadly certain their need to keep the children safe from whatever lurks inside it...
Nothing is quite what it seems at the Reeve, and with its pervasive atmosphere of claustrophobia and dread, Kate Collins' gothic creation will chill you to the core.
Kate Collins was born in Cork, Ireland and has spent her career in trade and academic publishing. She studied literature and medieval history at Lancaster University and went on to complete an Master's degree in contemporary literature at the same university. She lives in Oxfordshire.
