Gorgeously gothic novel and still haven't come up for air.’ Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters

Saxey's haunting, delicate text, the closer to cracking the ice one gets. ‘Unquiet deceptively presents itself like a frozen lake: The further one treads across E. 'Delicate and undeniably beautiful' –Publishers Weekly But there are secrets waiting there for Judith, things that have been dormant for so long, and if she is to uncover all of them, she may have to admit to truths that she has been keeping from herself. He has no memory of the past year, and remembers little of the accident that appeared to take his life.ĭesperate to keep his reappearance a secret until she can discover the truth about what happened to him, Judith journeys outside of the West London Jewish community she calls home, to the scene of Sam’s accident. One icy evening, conducting a ritual in her garden she discovers Sam, alive. Mourning the death of her brother-in-law, Sam, who drowned in an accident a year earlier, she distracts herself with art classes, books and strange rituals, whilst the rest of her family travel the world.

Judith lives a solitary life, save for the maid who haunts the family home in which she resides.

Perfect for fans of The Haunting of Hill House and readers of Sarah Waters. An intrepid young woman journeys across Victorian London and beyond in search of the truth behind the presumed death, and reappearance one icy evening, of her brother-in-law, in this gripping and mysterious gothic horror.

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