- American literature, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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Intimate, contemporary, grave and bleak.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Catriona Ward
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Lividian Publications, Thorndike Press, Tor Nightfire
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781788166171
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