![]() ![]() Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl's longing to fly free by the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. "Something has been let loose." In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. ![]() This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. 'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. ![]()
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