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Beneath the Shadows

by Sara Foster
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'A tense, suspenseful story of loss, secrets and ghostly presences' The West Australian When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the isolated North Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. However, a week later, Adam vanishes, abandoning their baby daughter on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village of Roseby. She is desperate for answers, but it seems the slumbering village is unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace learns more about the locals and the area's superstitions and folklore, strange dreams begin to trouble her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut them off from the rest of the world does Grace begin to understand just how close the threat lies, and that she and her daughter may be in terrible danger if she cannot get away in time.

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  • Release date

    January 25, 2012

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    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781742742946

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      • ISBN: 9781742742946
      • File size: 803 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 23, 2012
      The North Yorkshire moors provide the atmospheric backdrop for Australian author Foster’s otherwise unremarkable debut, a suspense thriller. One day after Londoner Adam Lockwood moves with his family into Hawthorn Cottage, a house he inherits in the village of Roseby, he disappears after taking a walk with his baby daughter, Millie. The police suspect that he’s abandoned his family, but his wife, Grace, is convinced that Adam would never have left willingly. After spending a year with her parents in France, Grace returns to Roseby in search of answers. The tight-knit community makes little effort to welcome her, though the town matriarch, Meredith Blakeney, is unusually interested in Hawthorn Cottage. Grace strikes up a friendship with Ben, another apparent outcast in Roseby, who offers to help her with renovations, while she sifts through years of secrets squirreled away in the cottage and the village itself. Foster nicely evokes the isolation of the moors, but the less than surprising reveal behind Adam’s vanishing act fails to satisfy. Agent: Catherine Drayton, InkWell Management.

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