The House of Whispers: The thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl!
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The House of Whispers: The thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl!
By (Author) Anna Mazzola
Orion Publishing Co
Orion
9th January 2024
12th October 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
260g
Description
The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl!
Sometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the present...Rome, 1938.As the world teeters on the brink of war, talented pianist Eva Valenti enters the house of widower Dante Cavallera to become his new wife. On the outside, the forces of Fascism are accelerating, but in her new home, Eva fears that something else is at work, whispering in the walls and leaving mysterious marks on Dante's young daughter. Soon she starts to wonder whether the house itself is trying to give up the secrets of its mysterious past - secrets that Dante seems so determined to keep hidden. However, Eva must also conceal the truth of her own identity, for if she is discovered, she will be in greater danger than she could ever have imagined...***Praise for Anna Mazzola:'Historical fiction with a fantastical twist, done with verve and skill' IAN RANKIN'An atmospheric and constantly surprising thriller' SUNDAY TIMES'Kept me guessing until the end. An absolute masterpiece' JENNIFER SAINT'A deliciously dark historical novel of thrilling originality' ESSIE FOX'Spellbinding, gripping, immersive and deliciously gothic' ERIN KELLY'Evocative, chilling, compelling' TAMMY COHEN'Breathtakingly good' ABIR MUKHERJEEReviews
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 * SINAD 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 *
Author Bio
Anna Mazzola is an award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allen Poe Award, and her third novel, The Clockwork Girl, was a Sunday Times historical fiction pick for 2022.
