The Two Houses: a gripping novel of buried secrets and those who hide them

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After a brilliant career in ceramics spent making things and breaking things, now it is Jay herself who has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she and her husband Simon move to the desolate edges of the Yorkshire moors, where they find and fall in love with the Two Houses: a crumbling Victorian property whose central rooms were supposedly so haunted that a previous owner had them cut out from the building entirely.

But on uprooting their city life and moving to the tiny grey village of Hestle, Jay and Simon discover it's not only the Two Houses that seems to be haunted by an obscure past. It soon becomes increasingly clear that the villagers don't want them there at all - and when building work to make the two houses whole again starts, a discovery is made that will unearth decades-old secrets . . .

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Confident and brilliant - Lisa O'Donnell on THESE DIVIDING WALLS

It'll open your heart and your mind. It certainly did mine - The Pool on THESE DIVIDING WALLS

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Fran Cooper grew up in London before reading English at Cambridge and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She spent three years in Paris writing a PhD about travelling eighteenth-century artists, and currently works in the curatorial department of a London museum.