The Shadow Year

A spellbinding tale of grief, jealousy and betrayal, from the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club selected SECRETS OF THE TIDES. 1980. On a hot summer's day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions begin to rise... Three decades later, Lila arrives at the remote cottage. Bruised from a tragic accident and with her marriage in crisis, she finds renovating the tumbledown house gives her a renewed sense of purpose. But why did the cottage's previous inhabitants leave their belongings behind? And why can't she shake the feeling that someone is watching her?

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Richell, Richell Hannah
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.09.2013
• EAN: 9781409127956
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-2795-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 163 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Fiction & related items, FICTION / Family Life / General, Modern and contemporary fiction