It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl's longing to fly free by the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past. Amongst her extensive oeuvre is also the bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, consisting of six historical fantasy novels for children, to which three more books were recently announced.
When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Readers of Sublime Horror will likely know novelist Michelle Paver best for her acclaimed ghost stories Dark Matter and Thin Air. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. "Something has been let loose." In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens : a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019.
'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats.
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