The House of Whispers

A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph! * JENNIFER SAINT *Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, this is a thrilling mystery with many eerie twists and turns to keep you hooked all through the night * ESSIE FOX *Powerful, spine-tingling and beautifully penned, this is gothic historical fiction at its very best and cements Mazzola as one of its most talented exponents * ABIR MUKHERJEE *Darkly atmospheric and dripping with menace. Anna Mazzola is a twisted genius * TAMMY COHEN *Absolutely brilliant. Gripping, beautifully written and properly chilling * CAROLINE GREEN *Beautiful, chilling, and darkly enchanting. Anna Mazzola is a truly gifted storyteller, and in The House of Whispers has created a novel so rich in detail, so clever and twisting * CHRIS WHITAKER *Eerie and unsettling, but perhaps Anna Mazzola’s superbly realised depiction of a nation gripped by the horrors of fascism is the most terrifying thing of all * KATE GRIFFIN *A wonderful tale, if also deeply unsettling and creepy. I ripped through The House of Whispers in double quick time * JAMES OSWALD *Robert Harris meets M.R. James in an evocative gothic tale set in a Rome on the edge of catastrophe … Mazzola’s dazzling imagination is at its very peak * DAVID HEWSON *The sense of place is impeccable, the sense of danger truly chilling * SINÉAD CROWLEY *The thrilling tale of a woman caught between the pressures of pre-war Italy and the more mysterious manifestations of something amiss in her own household * ALISON LITTLEWOOD *A delicately told ghost story set in the bright heat of 1930s Italy. Claustrophobic and compelling * AMANDA MASON *Packed with political and emotional intrigue … historically rich and deeply unsettling * SARAH HILARY *Gothic, immersive and very, very scary … Set in 1939 Rome against the rise of fascism, injecting a powerful sense of dread * ALLY WILKES *A gripping, thrilling story which had me hooked from the start, as the terrifying reality of fascism in pre-war Italy is increasingly entwined in an anguished marriage * MARY CHAMBERLAIN *Tense historical fiction like no other … Dark and mysterious with whispers of a buried past hidden in the walls. I cannot recommend The House of Whispers highly enough * AJ WEST *Supernatural events in a house mirror the creeping fascism in 1930s Rome … An absolute page turner * JULIE OWEN MOYLAN *What a rare treat … Offers a real insight into a little-explored era - in this case Mussolini’s fascist destruction of Italy. Utterly authentic * AK TURNER *Anna Mazzola skilfully blends personal trauma and political violence in her novel of innocence destroyed and betrayal - and adds a dash of Gothic for good measure * ELIZABETH BUCHAN *Fascinating, tense and very, very creepy * MICHAEL MALONE *

Anna Mazzola is an award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and her third novel, The Clockwork Girl, was a Sunday Times historical fiction pick for 2022.

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