Such Pretty Things

by Lisa Heathfield

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Pub Date 13 Apr 2021 | Archive Date 21 Apr 2021

Titan Books

Horror | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

Following their mother’s accident, Clara and Stephen are sent to stay with their aunt and uncle. It’s a summer to explore the remote house, the walled garden and woods. Beyond it all the loch sits, silent and waiting.

Auntie has wanted children for so long, with hair to brush and arms to slip into clothes made just for them. All those hours washing, polishing, preparing beds and preserving fruit and now Clara and Stephen are here, like a miracle, on her doorstep.

But as they explore their new home, the children uncover ghosts Auntie buried long ago. As their worlds collide, Clara and Auntie struggle for control. And every day they spend there, Clara can feel unknown forces changing her brother. Haunted and bewildered, this hastily formed family begins to tear itself apart.

Advance Praise

"A masterful modern day Gothic that is dread inducing and melancholic in equal measure, Such Pretty Things is a thoughtful rumination on the wonder and horror of grief, of what it can become. By the end, holy hell, the book is a fist that slowly closes around your heart and squeezes. "
Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of Cabin at the End of the World

"A wonderfully creepy and unsettling account of the terrors of a child trapped in an uncertain adult world. The suspense grows as that world becomes increasingly untrustworthy and dangerous, resulting in the steady disintegration of normality. A terrific read."
Alison Littlewood, author of The Cold Season and The Cottingley Cuckoos

"A brutally, searingly bleak exploration of loss and grief, with finely drawn characters and lovely echoes of Turn of the Screw."
James Brogden, author of Hekla's Children