This was the first book I’ve read by Alison Littlewood but it definitely won’t be the last. Mistletoe is a masterfully written, deliciously unsettling novel. I loved the timeslip element: a disturbing blurring of the lines between past and present as Leah uncovers the truth about the terrible events that happened at Maitland Farm, involving her own ancestors. Full of slow-burn creepiness, a deeply evocative landscape and a cast of believable characters, past and present, Alison Littlewood controls the tension so masterfully in this book that I could not put it down.