About the Author

Anna Mazzola is an award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and her third novel, The Clockwork Girl, was a Sunday Times historical fiction pick for 2022.

Reviews

A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph!
*JENNIFER SAINT*

Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, this is a thrilling mystery with many eerie twists and turns to keep you hooked all through the night
*ESSIE FOX*

Powerful, spine-tingling and beautifully penned, this is gothic historical fiction at its very best and cements Mazzola as one of its most talented exponents
*ABIR MUKHERJEE*

Darkly atmospheric and dripping with menace. Anna Mazzola is a twisted genius
*TAMMY COHEN*

Absolutely brilliant. Gripping, beautifully written and properly chilling
*CAROLINE GREEN*

Beautiful, chilling, and darkly enchanting. Anna Mazzola is a truly gifted storyteller, and in The House of Whispers has created a novel so rich in detail, so clever and twisting
*CHRIS WHITAKER*

Eerie and unsettling, but perhaps Anna Mazzola's superbly realised depiction of a nation gripped by the horrors of fascism is the most terrifying thing of all
*KATE GRIFFIN*

A wonderful tale, if also deeply unsettling and creepy. I ripped through The House of Whispers in double quick time
*JAMES OSWALD*

Robert Harris meets M.R. James in an evocative gothic tale set in a Rome on the edge of catastrophe . . . Mazzola's dazzling imagination is at its very peak
*DAVID HEWSON*

The sense of place is impeccable, the sense of danger truly chilling
*SINÉAD CROWLEY*

The thrilling tale of a woman caught between the pressures of pre-war Italy and the more mysterious manifestations of something amiss in her own household
*ALISON LITTLEWOOD*

A delicately told ghost story set in the bright heat of 1930s Italy. Claustrophobic and compelling
*AMANDA MASON*

Packed with political and emotional intrigue . . . historically rich and deeply unsettling
*SARAH HILARY*

Gothic, immersive and very, very scary . . . Set in 1939 Rome against the rise of fascism, injecting a powerful sense of dread
*ALLY WILKES*

A gripping, thrilling story which had me hooked from the start, as the terrifying reality of fascism in pre-war Italy is increasingly entwined in an anguished marriage
*MARY CHAMBERLAIN*

Tense historical fiction like no other . . . Dark and mysterious with whispers of a buried past hidden in the walls. I cannot recommend The House of Whispers highly enough
*AJ WEST*

Supernatural events in a house mirror the creeping fascism in 1930s Rome . . . An absolute page turner
*JULIE OWEN MOYLAN*

What a rare treat . . . Offers a real insight into a little-explored era - in this case Mussolini's fascist destruction of Italy. Utterly authentic
*AK TURNER*

Anna Mazzola skilfully blends personal trauma and political violence in her novel of innocence destroyed and betrayal - and adds a dash of Gothic for good measure
*ELIZABETH BUCHAN*

Fascinating, tense and very, very creepy
*MICHAEL MALONE*