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Harper Perennial
April 2016
On Sale: March 29, 2016
512 pages
ISBN: 0062409328
EAN: 9780062409324
Kindle: B01122BZ12
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Thriller Psychological
Internationally bestselling author Julie Myerson’s
beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of
psychological suspense explores the tragedies—past and
present—haunting a picturesque country cottage. Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a
cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn’t
been lived in for years, but they are drawn to its original
features and surprisingly large garden, which stretches down
into a beautiful apple orchard. It’s idyllic, remote,
picturesque: exactly what they need to put the horror of the
past behind them. One hundred and fifty years earlier, a huge oak tree was
felled in front of the cottage during a raging storm.
Beneath it lies a young man with a shock of red hair,
presumed dead—surely no one could survive such an accident.
But the red-haired man is alive, and after a brief
convalescence is taken in by the family living in the
cottage and put to work in the fields. The children all love
him, but the eldest daughter, Eliza, has her reservations.
There’s something about the red-haired man that sits ill
with her. A presence. An evil. Back in the present, weeks after moving to the cottage and
still drowning beneath the weight of insurmountable grief,
Mary Coles starts to sense there’s something in the house.
Children’s whispers, footsteps from above, half-caught
glimpses of figures in the garden. A young man with a shock
of red hair wandering through the orchard. Has Mary’s grief turned to madness? Or have the events that
took place so long ago finally come back to haunt her…?
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