Call of the Curlew

A gorgeous, atmospheric debut novel of secrets and fateful decisions, set in the Essex marshes.

Like Daphne du Maurier…powerfully conjures up a place, a time, and a story that are unforgettable.

An atmospheric, beautifully paced novel about sacrifice, the urge to belong and revenge. It's full of well-drawn characters I loved to hate, and those that I didn't want to let go, even after I closed the last page.

A beautifully written, atmospheric novel -- reminiscent of Jane Eyre... bewitching and haunting

ELIZABETH BROOKS grew up in Chester, and read Classics at Cambridge. Her debut novel CALL OF THE CURLEW was shortlisted for the Waverton Good Reads award. The setting for her new novel, THE WHISPERING HOUSE, is a manor house named Byrne Hall and is inspired by the home of Agatha Christie. It is full of dark corners and old portraits that carry untold stories of their subjects. Elizabeth Brooks lives on the Isle of Man with her husband and children.

'Unforgettable' - ROSAMUND LUPTON 
 
Virginia Wrathmell has always known she will meet her death on the marsh. 
 
One snowy New Year's Eve, at the age of eighty-six, Virginia feels the time has finally come. 
 
New Year's Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her new parents at their mysterious house, Salt Winds. Her new home sits on the edge of a vast marsh, a beautiful but dangerous place. War feels far away out here amongst the birds and shifting sands - until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh. The people at Salt Winds are the only ones to see it. 
 
What happens next is something Virginia will regret for the next seventy-five years, and which will change the whole course of her life.

Elizabeth Brooks

Shimmering, lush, with prose that beats at the heart, The Whispering House will keep you up all night

Eerie and addictive...A chilling, masterly study in all the ways love can lead to misery. Like Wuthering Heights...terrifying yet wholly believable

A spellbinding gothic story ...an exquisitely creepy page-turner

A slow-simmering, psychological, gothic novel about grief and longing

A gothic romance for the contemporary age

Captivating. . . . this unsettling story about heartache and yearning is filled with bone-chilling breezes, taunting ghosts and maddening isolation

'Shimmering, lush...will keep you up all night' - Rene Denfeld, author of THE ENCHANTED 
 
'Eerie and addictive' - New York Times 
 
 
When I think of Byrne Hall - which I do more often than I'd like - it's the dead weight of the heatwave that comes back to me, and the smell of things going rotten. 
 
Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella's suicide five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the scene of the tragedy, she discovers a portrait of Stella - a portrait she had no idea existed, in a house Stella never set foot in. Or so she thought. 
 
Driven to find out more about her sister's secrets, Freya is drawn into the world of Byrne Hall and its owners: charismatic artist Cory and his sinister, watchful mother. But as Freya's relationship with Cory crosses the line into obsession, the darkness behind the locked doors of Byrne Hall threatens to spill out.

The Whispering House

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Shimmering, lush, with prose that beats at the heart, The Whispering House will keep you up all night

Eerie and addictive...A chilling, masterly study in all the ways love can lead to misery. Like Wuthering Heights...terrifying yet wholly believable

A spellbinding gothic story ...an exquisitely creepy page-turner

Shimmering, lush, with prose that beats at the heart, The Whispering House will keep you up all night

Eerie and addictive...A chilling, masterly study in all the ways love can lead to misery. Like Wuthering Heights...terrifying yet wholly believable

A spellbinding gothic story ...an exquisitely creepy page-turner

Shimmering, lush, with prose that beats at the heart, The Whispering House will keep you up all night

Eerie and addictive...A chilling, masterly study in all the ways love can lead to misery. Like Wuthering Heights...terrifying yet wholly believable

A spellbinding gothic story ...an exquisitely creepy page-turner

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