
Summary
Shadowbrook’s Secret: A Gothic Tale of Gardens and Ghosts
I had a curious sense of being watched.
June 1914. Clara Waterfield is called to a grand stone house in Gloucestershire, her mission: to cultivate a greenhouse filled with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, a private paradise for Shadowbrook’s owner.
But upon arrival, whispers fill the air. Something is amiss in this tranquil, wisteria-draped house. Its gardens overflow with foxgloves, h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007649 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349007640 |
| Author: | Susan Fletcher |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 142mm x 38mm |
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Brilliant characterisation, beautiful and mesmerising story: like entering a dream. I was spellbound and couldn’t do anything else but keep reading
Brilliant characterisation, beautiful and mesmerising story: like entering a dream. I was spellbound and couldn’t do anything else but keep reading – Jill DawsonA gorgeous, darkly gothic treat – Amanda CraigHouse of Glass may start as a ghost story but turns into something much more profound: a lyrical examination of how women carve lives out of a male-dominated society, even with a war looming that will change everyone. I was surprised and moved – Tracy ChevalierMagical and often extremely moving. A gem * Daily Mail *Moody and atmospheric - and just as compelling [as Daphne du Maurier] … Tense, thrilling and a true page-turner * Image magazine *Fletcher’s prose is dreamily sensual, full of the light and heat of an English summer, an eerie contrast to the shadows of the oncoming First World War … House Of Glass is a beautifully written, gloriously Gothic story of gardens, ghosts and old, uneasy grudges – Eithne Farry * Sunday Express *With echoes of Daphne du Maurier, House of Glass is a mesmerising ghost story set in a dilapidated country house where things go bump in the night * Good Housekeeping *A very satisfying read with a clever twist. I loved it * Four Shires *Offers readers many of the pleasures of her earlier work … The novel is haunted by secondhand memories of empire and by trees and flowers transplanted from warmer climates, its version of England sustained and undermined by dependence on faraway places * Guardian *As her heroine faces increasing dangers, Fletcher neatly changes the direction in which her story is heading. What seems initially a tale of the supernatural develops into something more * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Susan Fletcher
Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling Eve Green (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award), Oystercatchers and Witch Light - and most recently, the much-lauded Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew.
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