The Hiding Place
The most unsettling ghost story you'll read this year
by Amanda Mason
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 14 Oct 2021 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2022
Bonnier Books UK | Zaffre
Talking about this book? Use #TheHidingPlace #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
Elder House holds many secrets. Will you discover them before it's too late?
Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea, needing time and space away from home after Maude became involved in some troubling events. Nell grew up in this small, wind-blown town and has mixed feelings about returning, and it isn't long before she is recognised by a neighbour, seemingly desperate to befriend her. The cottage too has been empty for some time, and from the start Nell feels uncomfortable there. Something isn't quite right about this place . . .
Maude, furious about being brought here against her will and her father's attention falling so often elsewhere, soon finds herself beguiled by the house's strange atmosphere. There are peculiar marks in the roof beams above her bedroom, and in another room, a hiding place, concealing a strange, unnerving object.
As the house gradually reveals its secrets, Nell becomes increasingly uneasy - and Maude spellbound. But these women - and the women that surround them - are harbouring their own secrets too, and soon events will come to a terrible head . . .
A brilliant, unsettling and chilling novel of mothers and daughters, truth and deception and the lengths people will go to, to obtain power over their own lives.
Advance Praise
'Haunting and atmospheric, The Hiding Place lingers in the dark spaces of a home as Amanda Mason deftly crafts a steady, creeping tension.' A.J. Gnuse, author of Girl in the Walls
'The Hiding Place has everything; chills that build, an immersive setting and a wonderful clash between the present and the past, the living and the dead.' Jess Kidd
'Satisfyingly unsettling, this is a hugely atmospheric novel that oozes with uncanny menace.' Lucie McKnight Hardy
'The Hiding Place is the perfect modern ghost story -evocative, unsettling and genuinely spine-tingling. With vividly realised characters and a chilling mystery at its heart, I truly couldn't put it down' Katie Lowe
'Tense, atmospheric and suffused with the peculiar longing of motherhood.' Araminta Hall
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781838771966 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 400 |
Average rating from 55 members
Readers who liked this book also liked:
We Are Bookish
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Multicultural Interest
Rick Riordan; Mark Oshiro
Children's Fiction, LGBTQIA, Teens & YA