Darkrooms

(Paperback)

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Twenty years ago Caitlin vowed never to return to her small Irish hometown. Now she drifts from temporary jobs to temporary men, trying to escape memories of the Hanging Woods. Of what happened to Roisin there.

But with news of her estranged mother's sudden death, Caitlin is forced to return home, back to the town where everyone knows each other's business and old resentments run deep.

Roisin's sister Deedee, now a Garda, has never given up on finding the truth of what happened in those woods. And Caitlin's return makes old wounds fresh, threatening to exhume secrets that have lain buried for two decades - while the Hanging Woods begin their siren call to Caitlin and Deedee once more . . .

Reviews

Darkrooms is a powerful firecracker of a debut. It's an unflinching and brutal thriller, but a rare, bleeding and cadenced feminist story lurks just beneath. It is, in a single word, astonishing -- LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB
A creepy, imaginative, and moody thriller that explores the rippling effects of a young girl's disappearance in the woods near a small Irish village. A chilling mystery about damaged people and the secrets they keep -- Peter Swanson, author of KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Author Bio

Rebecca Hannigan was born in London but raised in Sunderland by Irish immigrant parents, and therefore never quite fit in anywhere. She has worked in marketing in London for ten years and DARKROOMS is her first novel. Hannigan is based in South-East England, where she lives with her husband, cat, and far too many books.