The Hidden People
Alison Littlewood
- 06 oktober 2016
- 9781786484024
Samenvatting:
Pretty Lizzie Higgs is gone, burned to dead on her own hearth - but was she really a changeling, as her husband insists? Albie Mirralls met his cousin only once, in 1851, within the grand glass arches of the Crystal Palace, but unable to countenance the rumours that surround her murder, he leaves his young wife in London and travels to Halfoak, a village steeped in superstition.
Albie begins to look into Lizzie's death, but in this place where the old tales hold sway and the 'Hidden People' supposedly roam, answers are slippery and further tragedy is just a step away . . .
PRAISE FOR ALISON LITTLEWOOD:
'Alison Littlewood has a real talent for building atmosphere, loaded with the promise of things to come'
THE GUARDIAN
'Littlewood is going to be very big indeed'
THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
'[Littlewood] is the real deal, a writer with a unique vision and the talent to make us see the world anew through her eyes'
PETER TENNANT, TTA PRESS.
'Alison Littlewood uses old flavors with a fresh and personal approach, to brew a story both sensible and terrifying at the same time'
DARK WOLF
'A writer of exceptional skill ... stands alongside the greats of the genre: fertile ground worked by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, Stephen King ... one of the most exceptional horror authors of the current generation'
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9781848669901
£14.99
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Fiction/Horror
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The bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Cold Season returns with a chilling mystery - w here superstition and myth bleed into real life with tragic consequences
Pretty Lizzie Higgs is gone, burned to death on her own hearth - but was she really a changeling, as her husband insists? Albie Mirralls met his cousin only once, in 1851, within the grand glass arches of the Crystal Palace, but unable to countenance the rumours that surround her murder, he leaves his young wife in London and travels to Halfoak, a village steeped in superstition.
Albie begins to look into Lizzie's death, but in this place where the old tales hold sway and the 'Hidden People' supposedly roam, answers are slippery and further tragedy is just a step away . . .
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