June 1914, a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large honey-coloured stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a glasshouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private paradise for the owner of Shadowbrook.
On arrival, Clara hears rumours. Something feels wrong with this quiet, wisteria-covered house. Its gardens are filled with foxgloves, hydrangeas and roses; it has a bathing pool, a croquet lawn and the marvellous new glasshouse awaits her.
But the house itself feels unloved.
Who is the owner who never shows himself?
In the height of summer, Clara finds herself drawn deeper into the dark interior rooms - and into the secrets that violently haunt Shadowbrook.
Nothing - not even the men who claim they wish to help her is quite what it seems.
Set against the backdrop of a Britain on the cusp of the First World War, this is a compelling gothic novel about lies, love-and of the lives that haunt us.
Creepy gothic historic novel
Trade paperback
BBMOM

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