THE MARSH HOUSE

by Zoë Somerville (£18.99, Head of Zeus, HB)

Christmas, 1962. Desperate to patch up a trainwreck of a year, Malorie takes her young daughter to a remote coastal house in Norfolk. The strained atmosphere between them is anything but cosy, so when Malorie happens upon the diary of Rosemary, a young woman who lived in The Marsh House 30 years before, she loses herself among the pages. Summer, 1931. Bored of her dreary, austere life, Rosemary is dazzled by siblings Hilda and Franklin from the picture-perfect Lafferty family. But behind their charming facades, something evil is lurking. Past and present merge in this eerie, compelling tale of family secrets.