The Whispering House

With a compelling narrator, absorbing atmosphere, and loads of literary references, this modern gothic novel is a stunner.

– “The Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading Guide”Eerie and addictive… . Like Wuthering Heights, The Whispering House is a melancholy novel, its characters filled with dark longings.– “The New York Times Book Review”The Whispering House is atmospheric and creepy, and as needy, nostalgic Freya is pulled deeper and deeper into its shadows, the reader’s worry for her grows–and, with it, the novel’s suspense. Freya is haunted by words she wishes she could take back, the sister she lost, the love that never was, the hopes for the future that she couldn’t attain; all of these materialize in the deep shadows and shifting portrait-eyes of Byrne Hall. Brooks has crafted a slow-simmering, psychological, gothic novel about grief and longing.– “Booklist”Shimmering, lush, with prose that beats at the heart, The Whispering House will keep you up all night. Elizabeth Brooks has written a gothic mystery like no other.–Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Butterfly Girl