Mrs England The award-winning Sunday Times bestseller from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award
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Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, Independent, Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling, her second, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third Mrs England. Mrs England was longlisted for the Portico Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and won the Women's Prize Futures Award. Her latest novel, The Household, was also a Sunday Times bestseller.<b>Utterly compelling. Menacing and marvellously written, this is a hugely accomplished Edwardian chiller.</b>
Daily Mail
<b>Outstanding. Haunting, compelling, atmospheric.</b>
Emma Stonex, bestselling author of The Lamplighters
Stacey Halls is <b>a writer of great originality, great imagination and great sense of place</b>. <b>Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel is worth reading, then reading again and again.</b>
Kate Mosse
With a desolate setting that <b>shimmers with menace</b>, Stacey Halls' tense novel masterfully tackles issues such as the abuse of power. This <b>enticing and beautifully written</b> story should delight those fans of historical fiction.
Sunday Express
Hugely readable with a palpable sense of dread, this is a <b>truly brilliant </b>book.
The Sun
<i>The Familiars </i>author has fast become the queen of historical lit and this new offering, set in 1904, might be <b>her best yet</b>... <b>Evocative and captivating</b>.
Heat Magazine
Halls hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary historical fiction and <b>this feminist gothic thriller is a lovely stealth read, simmering with tension.</b>
Metro
<b>Mesmerising, entrancing</b>, a <b>spellbinding</b> novel of emotion and mystery, a heroine caught in an impossible world of twists, turns and lies. <b>Gripping to the very last page.</b>
Kate Williams
Halls shows genuine skill in building the sense of menace within the England household and in the unfolding of its secrets.
Sunday Times
This <b>enthralling</b> read is a <b>powerful</b> examination of an Edwardian marriage, and the underlying currents of control, courage and power.
Woman & Home