Wakenhyrst
A Times Best Book of 2019.<BR> 'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. "Something has been let loose..." <BR><BR>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. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. <BR><BR>When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. <BR><BR>Maud's battle has begun. 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. <BR><BR>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. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry.
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A Times Best Book of 2019.<BR> 'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. "Something has been let loose..." <BR><BR>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. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. <BR><BR>When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. <BR><BR>Maud's battle has begun. 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. <BR><BR>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. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry.
H | B | T | Gramm
125 mm | 195 mm | 28 mm | 0.278 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Bloomsbury UK
ISBN-10
1788549570
ISBN-13
9781788549578
Autor
Michelle Paver
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
401
Themen
Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Liebesromane / Romance, Thriller / Spannung, Metaphysische / philosophische Belletristik
Keywords
Thriller / Spannung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Horror / Romane, Erzählungen, Heftromane, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Metaphysische / philosophische Belletristik, Liebesromane / Romance, TB/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen, Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches
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