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For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here sa magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall. "Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us""too, what we used to be like in those long summers . . ."Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her London family s country estate, where no two clocks read the same. Summers there are perfect, timeless. Not much ever happens. Until, of course, it does. More than three decades later, Lorna is determined to be married within the grand, ivy-covered walls of Pencraw Hall, known as Black Rabbit Hall among the locals. But as she s drawn deeper into the overgrown grounds, half-buried memories of her mother begin to surface and Lorna soon finds herself ensnared within the manor s labyrinthine history, overcome with an insatiable need for answers about her own past and that of the once-happy family whose memory still haunts the estate. Stunning and atmospheric, this debut novel is a thrilling spiral into the hearts of two women separated by decades but inescapably linked by the dark and tangled secrets of Black Rabbit Hall."
About the Author
I'm an author who writes rich suspenseful novels about families - dysfunctional, passionate - and the sort of explosive secrets that can rip them apart. I write stories that I'd love to read. Mysteries. Page-turners. Worlds you can lose yourself in. Reading time is so precious: I try to make my books worthy of that sweet spot. My office is a garden studio/shed. There are roses outside. I live in Oxford with my three children, husband, and a ridiculously hairy golden retriever, Harry. Do say hello. Wave! Tweet me! I love hearing from readers. I'm on Twitter and Instagram @EvePollyChase and on Facebook, eve.chase.author. 'Eve Chase is an extraordinary writer. No one creates families as complex, loveable and utterly believable as Chase and she is the master of the dual time frame narrative.' Lisa Jewell, no.1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone Black Rabbit HallWinner of best foreign fiction novel, Saint Maur en Poche festival, Paris The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde - published in the US as The Wildling SistersLonglisted for HWA Gold Crown Prize Out soon! The Glass House - published in the US as The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
