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Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for October 2022
Hare House is not its real name,of course. I have,if you will forgive me,kept names to a minimum here,for reasons that will become understandable ...
In the first brisk days of autumn,a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the remote estate of Hare House,she begins to explore her new home - a patchwork of hills,moorland and forest. But among the tiny roads,dykes and scattered houses,something more sinister lurks: local tales of witchcraft,clay figures and young men sent mad.
Striking up a friendship with her landlord,Grant,and his younger sister,Cass,she begins to suspect that all might not be quite as it seems at Hare House. And as autumn turns to winter,and a heavy snowfall traps the inhabitants of the estate within its walls,tensions rise to fever pitch.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 2928377131333Number of pages: 320Dimensions: 197 x 130 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A beautiful,slow burn of a novel,eerie and shimmering in equal measure. The bewitching prose brilliantly evokes the bleak glories of a remote Scottish landscape,while the subtle shifts of plot and perspective lure the reader towards an unsettling denouement where nothing is quite what it seems. A dark uncanny read and all the more satisfying for that'- Mary Paulson-Ellis
'Eerie and subtle... this deliciously chilly tale dodges the expected outcome and maintains a delicate balance between psychology and witchcraft right to its disturbing end'- Guardian
'A tale humming with suppressed hysteria and madness'- The Saturday Times
'The atmosphere of sickly oddness creeps up with wonderful control. Hinchcliffe has a superb sense for the slightly off detail... Hinchcliffe has crafted an exquisitely,horribly unreliable narrator. But if the character is not to be trusted,the author very much is: Hare House is a marvellously nasty piece of distinctly Scottish gothic'- The Times
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