#Saltember-‘Haverscroft’ by S.A Harris

About the book…

Kate Keeling leaves all she knows and moves to Haverscroft House in an attempt to salvage her marriage. Little does she realise, Haverscroft’s dark secrets will drive her to question her sanity, her husband and fatally engulf her family unless she can stop the past repeating itself. Can Kate keep her children safe and escape Haverscroft in time, even if it will end her marriage?

Haverscroft is a gripping and chilling dark tale, a modern ghost story that will keep you turning its pages late into the night

Published by Salt in paperback edition, this is a perfect autumnal read that will make you shiver as the nights draw in!

‘Haverscroft’ is a name that deserves to be whispered in the same breath as the Marsten House,in the same way that author S.A Harris and Susan Hill  make great bedfellows.

I don’t say that lightly, as it takes a lot to make me double check the doors and under the bed before turning in, but I can absolutely recommend reading this in broad daylight-trust me on this.

Kate’s husband has bought run down wreck of a house, Haverscroft, in a bid to move their family away from the city and start afresh, The details of why they left are dotted through the first half of the book, as you are gathering the full picture of Kate,her twins Tom and Sophie and husband Mark and placing them, dolls house like, in the various parts of Haverscroft.

Kate is reluctant to move there, she has given up everything-or has she?-to rescue her family from seperation. This move is supposed to bring them closer together but Haverscroft has other ideas.

As the house becomes more firmly entrenched in the mind of both the reader, and Kate herself, its’ secret history is slowly revealed like a creaking attic door that you finally found the right key for. It swings wide open and what is reveals is rotten, shocking and potentially life ending…

A brilliant modern gothic tale which plays on the expectations of the role of women, the manipulation of their mental health and the risks they will take for their children, ‘Haverscroft’ is a perfect late night read from a major new talent in the field of ghost stories.

‘Haverscroft’ was longlisted for the ‘Not The Booker Prize’ and is available via the Salt website with free p+p and 20% off over orders of £30

About the author…

S.A.Harris is an award-winning author and family law solicitor born in Suffolk and now living and working in Norwich, Norfolk.

She won the Retreat West Crime Writer Competition in 2017. She was shortlisted for The Fresher Prize First 500 Words of a Novel Competition in 2018 and published in their anthology, Monsters, in November 2018.

Her debut novel, Haverscroft, will be published on the 15th May 2019.

She is a member of the Society of Authors

Links-https://www.saharrisauthor.com/

https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/haverscroft-9781784632007

Twitter @salharris1

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