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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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Internationally bestselling author Julie Myersonβs beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of psychological suspense explores the tragediesβpast and presentβhaunting 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 hasnβt 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. Itβs 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 deadβsurely 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. Thereβs 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 thereβs something in the house. Childrenβs 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 Maryβs grief turned to madness? Or have the events that took place so long ago finally come back to haunt herβ¦?
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