About the Author

Born in Manchester, Catherine Burns is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She worked as a bond trader in London before studying at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and teaching film theory at the University of Salford. The Visitors is her debut novel.

Reviews

The Visitors is an insidious, creepy novel, with a slow burn that leads to a horrifying revelation.
-- "Literary Hub"

"The Visitors, is dark and atmospheric, and its imagery is quite evocative... Through vignettes from Marion's point of view, Burns slowly layers morbid details as she unravels the disturbing Zetland history."-- "Shelf Awareness"

"Shades of Room."-- "The New York Post"

"Once you start Catherine Burns' dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop.The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable."--Iain Reid, Internationally bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things