'Will toy with your pulse and send chills down your spine' Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb<\/i><\/b> <\/p>\n
A chilling new novel from the Costa First Novel Award shortlisted author <\/p>\n
THE ISLAND IS ABANDONED. BUT SHE IS NOT ALONE . . .<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
Off the windswept coast of Scotland lies Finish Island, rugged and remote. Once a home, it now stands abandoned, a place of dark history and deep memory, a place that holds its stories close. Unable to write since her daughter's death, it's here that Seren comes to work, hoping that the solitude and silence will inspire her next novel.<\/p>\n
But the island holds memories of its own, restless and unwilling to stay buried. As unsettling occurrences become even more bizarre and frightening, Seren starts seeing uncanny resonances between her past and the island's history. There is something on this island, something ancient and unforgiving. Will Seren discover its secrets, before it's too late?
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE<\/p>\n
<\/b>'A slow-burner shot through with menace' Heat
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'Spinetingling' My Weekly<\/i><\/b>
'Compulsive' Rebecca Netley, author of The Whistling<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seren Doughty is an author who has written nothing in the five years since her daughter’s murder. So when her former editor approaches her agent with the idea for a ghost story, Seren immediately thinks of the abandoned island of Finish in the Outer Hebrides and seizes the opportunity to commit herself to a new project. Leaving her old life far behind, she immerses herself in island life. The only building on the island – a small stone bothy – becomes home as she finally picks up her pen and attempts to write. Except Finish is not abandoned. She soon discovers the island is alive with strange noises and echoes of a bloody massacre, events more traumatic than any fiction she might construct. Her emerging manuscript becomes dominated by the figure of the island midwife, Granny Chulainn, whose attempts to save the island’s children have gone unrecorded for many centuries. That is, until Seren’s arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[406],"product_tag":[26827,26934,26896,2695,27041,26830,29260],"class_list":{"0":"post-110006","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-crime-thrillers","6":"product_tag-narrative-theme-death-grief-loss","7":"product_tag-contemporary-horror","8":"product_tag-fiction-general-literary","9":"product_tag-ghosts-poltergeists","10":"product_tag-horror-supernatural-fiction","11":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction","12":"product_tag-unexplained-phenomena-the-paranormal","13":"pa_book_author-lodato-elisa","14":"pa_cover-paperback","15":"pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","16":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","17":"pa_imprint-manilla","18":"pa_language-english","19":"pa_pages-8261","20":"pa_publisher-manilla","21":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","23":"first","24":"onbackorder","25":"taxable","26":"shipping-taxable","27":"purchasable","28":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n