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SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.No one chills the heart like Susan Hill
Daily Telegraph
An excellent ghost story… magnificently eerie… compulsive reading
Evening Standard
A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine
Guardian
Heartstoppingly chilling
Daily Express
Terrifying... creepy classic
Daily Mail
Susan Hill is the reigning queen of ghost writers and her period novella…is a classic, broodingly creepy and at times terrifying
- Michael Hogan, Observer
Hill’s haunting tales may be slim, but they pull no punches…
Harper's Bazaar
She writes with great power… Authentically chilling
Daily Telegraph
Told with great cunning and beautifully written
Washington Post
One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror...the work bursts into life and does not flag until the end
Washington Post
‘I did not believe in ghosts’
Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow’s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, the place where the old recluse died amidst a sinking swamp, a blinding fog and a baleful mystery about which the townsfolk refuse to speak.
Young Mr Kipps expects a boring evening alone sorting out paperwork and searching for Mrs Drablow’s will. But when the high tide pens him in, what he finds – or rather what finds him – is something else entirely.
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