Willow's days loop and blur inside a house run by her husband's rules. Marie Still's psychological horror asks whether the walls holding her are real, or built inside her own mind.
Readical Key Points
Psychological horror in which reality and delusion blur
Explores motherhood, grief and mental illness
Includes disturbing supernatural imagery, psychological distress and a child's disappearance
Paperback from Rising Action, 304 pages
Time no longer runs straight for Willow. Her one link to the outside is Sarah, a young girl who wanders into her garden, until cracks in her routine let other things in: words carved behind peeling floral wallpaper, and a house that seems to breathe. When Sarah vanishes, Willow has to face a past she has kept buried, perhaps even from herself.
Fans of domestic and psychological horror who like an unreliable narrator and a house with a will of its own will find both here; the publisher points to The Yellow Wallpaper as a touchstone. Every wall in the house becomes a question, and Willow has to decide which ones are real.
About the Author
Marie Still is the author of My Darlings, We're All Lying and Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead, a Silver Falchion Award finalist. She writes women's fiction under the name Kristen Seeley.
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