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by William Friend
For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel where grief, mystery, and something undead haunt a young woman and her family, and soon, a dark history will repeat itself.
Some grief echoes. Some grief knocks.
When Morwenna receives a troubling call from her reclusive Aunt Bethan, she reluctantly returns to the family's crumbling chateau by the French seaside. Bethan has lived there alone for years―ever since her husband vanished in circumstances the locals are still gripped by. Some whisper she killed him. Others claim something older, and far worse, took him.
What Morwenna finds is a house warped by grief. Rooms shift when no one is looking. Time seems to shift there, too. And the deeper Morwenna digs, the more the chateau seems aware of her presence… hungry for it. Worse, it seems drawn to her children.
Local folklore speaks of revenants rising from the sea, of creatures returning when the veil thins and old hungers wake. As strange events escalate, Morwenna must uncover the truth about her uncle's fate and the beings the villagers believe still haunt the estate―before history repeats itself. Because if the tales are true, something long buried is stirring… and it has been waiting for her family to return. The dead are not done with this house.
"Mysteries from the past flood the present in this atmospheric and unsettling stunner that bears the marks of a classic gothic tale. Friend's gorgeous prose captures the peculiarities of a fever dream, wherein nothing―and no one―is quite what it seems, and in which trepidation mounts like a rising tide." ―Nick Medina, author of Savage Lake
"And the Sea Gave Up the Dead exists within that blissfully liminal space on the bookshelf alongside the works of Shirley Jackson and Daphne du Maurier, equally tragic and horrific, chilling and heartbreaking, haunting both the body and mind of those brave enough to read it." ―Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
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William Friend lives in Hertfordshire with his partner. This is his debut.
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