Hare House is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me, kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become understandable . . .
Sally Hinchcliffe was born in London but grew up all over the world in the wake of her father's diplomatic career. She spent many years working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew developing research systems for taxonomists until a two-year sabbatical in Eswatini gave her the impetus to take her writing seriously. After completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, her first novel, Out of a Clear Sky, was published by Macmillan in 2008. She moved to south-west Scotland to work as a writer and freelance editor full time, when she is not out exploring rural Dumfries and Galloway on her bike. Hare House is her second novel.
A beautiful, slow burn of a novel, eerie and shimmering in equal
measure. The bewitching prose brilliantly evokes the bleak glories
of a remote Scottish landscape, while the subtle shifts of plot and
perspective lure the reader towards an unsettling denouement where
nothing is quite what it seems. A dark uncanny read and all the
more satisfying for that
*Mary Paulson-Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker and
Emily Noble's Disgrace*
Eerie and subtle . . . This deliciously chilly tale dodges the
expected outcome and maintains a delicate balance between
psychology and witchcraft right to its disturbing end
*Guardian*
A tale humming with suppressed hysteria and madness
*The Saturday Times*
The atmosphere of sickly oddness creeps up with wonderful control.
Hinchcliffe has a superb sense for the slightly off detail . . .
Hinchcliffe has crafted an exquisitely, horribly unreliable
narrator. But if the character is not to be trusted, the author
very much is: Hare House is a marvellously nasty piece of
distinctly Scottish gothic
*The Times*
Dark and absorbing . . . A compelling chiller redolent of Zoe
Heller's Notes on a Scandal, Hare House treads the treacherous line
between the real and the supernatural with dexterity. It is also a
beautiful, if sinister, evocation of the Dumfries and Galloway
landscape
*The Herald*
Wonderfully evocative
*Heat*
A deeply unsettling modern-day tale of witchcraft
*Woman's Weekly*
Hinchcliffe writes atmospherically . . . Fans of the supernatural
will find much to enjoy in this eerie tale
*Literary Review*
Slightly gothic, it is a quietly eerie novel, beautifully written,
one that keeps a reader alert
*Belfast Telegraph*
Marvellously atmospheric . . . The atmosphere of sickly oddness
creeps up with wonderful control. Hinchcliffe has a superb sense
for the slightly off detail -- the strangeness of a house that
seems to contain a presence even when there's no one else there
*The Times*
Splendidly sinister and shrouded in forbidding atmosphere, Sally
Hinchcliffe's assured second novel Hare House is a slice of wintry
folk horror featuring witchcraft, curses and madness
*Yorkshire Evening Post*
This thriller is the perfect novel for winter
*Health & Wellbeing*
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