![]() It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. Wakenhyrst is many things all at once a chilling Gothic horror, a coming of age tale, a story of madness and loneliness, and most of all an account of how one girl manages to look out for. Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl’s longing to fly free by the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father’s past. ![]() When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. As I am doing a short review over on Instagram I thought that I would do a full one on here All thoughts and opinions on this review are my own. I just want to thank Darkroom Tours and Head of Zeus for having me along on the tour. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. Read Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver with a free trial. Today is my stop on the Instagram tour for Michelle Paver’s gothic novel Wakenhyrst. “Something has been let loose…” In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. The new novel everyone’s been waiting for from bestselling author Michelle Paver. ![]() ![]() Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. ![]()
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