House of Glass

Author(s): Susan Fletcher

Fiction

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I had a curious sense of being watched.


June 1914 and a young woman - Clara Waterfield - is summoned to a large stone house in Gloucestershire. Her task: to fill a greenhouse with exotic plants from Kew Gardens, to create a private paradise for the owner of Shadowbrook. Yet, on arrival, Clara hears rumours: something is wrong with this quiet, wisteria-covered house. Its gardens are filled with foxgloves, hydrangea and roses; it has lily-ponds, a croquet lawn - and the marvellous new glasshouse awaits her. But the house itself feels unloved. Its rooms are shuttered, or empty. The owner is mostly absent; the housekeeper and maids seem afraid. And soon, Clara understands their fear: for something - or someone - is walking through the house at night. In the height of summer, she finds herself drawn deeper into Shadowbrook's dark interior - and into the secrets that violently haunt this house. Nothing - not even the men who claim they wish to help her - is quite what it seems.


Reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier, this is a wonderful, atmospheric Gothic page-turner.


A deeply absorbing, unputdownable ghost story that's also a love story; for readers who love Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger; Frances Hodges Burnett's The Secret Garden; Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; Jane Harris's The Observations.

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780349007656
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Virago Press
  • : 0.3
  • : September 2018
  • : 2.6 Centimeters X 13.5 Centimeters X 21.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Susan Fletcher
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 224