'In her beautifully written debut Kate Collins gives the haunted house novel a refreshing
renovation while retaining a deliciously chilling atmosphere that fans of Shirley Jackson will
love. I was entranced' Francine Toon author of Pine The perfect place to destroy a family...
The Reeve stands on the edge of the Dorset cliffs awaiting its next inhabitants. Despite
Orla's misgivings her husband insists this house will be the perfect place to raise their two
children. In 1976 Lydia moves to Dorset as a nanny for a family grieving their patriarch. She
soon starts to hear and feel things that cannot be real but her bereaved employer does not
listen when Lydia tells her something is wrong. Separated by forty years both Lydia and Orla
realise that the longer they stay at the Reeve the more deadly certain their need to keep the
children safe from whatever lurks inside it... Nothing is quite what it seems at the Reeve and
with its pervasive atmosphere of claustrophobia and dread Kate Collins' gothic creation will
chill you to the core.
