At the Bottom of the Garden
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
A murderous aunt, strangely gifted children and witchcraft come together in Camilla Bruce’s new intensely dark adult Gothic fairytale. For fans of Catriona Ward and C.J. Cooke
‘All the elegance and all the venom of one of E.Nesbit’s supernatural stories served with a side of arsenic.’ Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
The dead won’t stay silent forever…
Clara Woods has a secret. At the bottom of the garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her murdered husband rests in peace – or so she always thought. Then the girls arrived.
Lily and Violet, her adolescent nieces, are recently orphaned and in urgent need of care. Raising teenagers is certainly not what Clara had envisioned for herself, but they come with a hefty sum attached.
There is only one problem: both girls are untrained witches. Lily can literally see how people feel. And young Violet can see the dead man wandering at the bottom of the garden. In fact, she can see all the dead and call them back.
Soon, Clara finds herself surrounded by apparitions – and two girls who know far more about her dark past than they should. A war is waging in this house, and only one side can win…
'Theatrical and deliciously dark, this book is pure magic' A.J. West, author of The Spirit Engineer
'One gorgeously morbid gothic novel that's just as gleeful as it is gashlycrumb.' Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bruce (All the Blood We Share) goes gothic in this chilling fantastical horror novel. After preteen sisters Lily and Violet are orphaned, their wealthy parents' will stipulates they must live with their next nearest relative until elder sister Lily is 18. Unfortunately for them, all their kind, loving aunts and grandmothers have also died, and the only option left is cruel Aunt Clara. Clara is grasping and deceitful, much more interested in her late brother's millions than his daughters. But Lily and Violet are not ordinary girls: they have inherited magical powers from their mother's side of the family. Lily can tell from Clara's aura when she is lying—and Violet can see all the ghosts in Clara's rural mansion, including the kind old lady in the dining room and the angry man with terrible wounds who paces back and forth in the garden. The more of Clara's secrets the ghosts reveal, the more Lily and Violet must use their powers to avoid joining the ranks of these restless dead. The story loses focus somewhat in the final third as it strays from the claustrophobic mansion, but the combination of creepy folk-horror notes and tense, gory, and haunting scenes conjures plenty of scares. Readers will want to sleep with the lights on.
