The Visitor

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'Ghosts live in the sunshine too.'

For most of her adult life, Laura has lived in the UK, her ties to her Brisbane upbringing all but severed. When her parents, Bruce and Eliza, perish in mysterious circumstances in the Queensland outback, she and her family must return to settle their affairs and sell the now-dilapidated house of her childhood.

But as the renovations progress, Laurastarts to experience strange happenings in the house that cannot be explained away. Is it haunted Or is the woman next door, who had inveigled her way into Bruce and Eliza's lives, testing her as she copes with the grief and trauma of their deaths

Fourteen-year-old Tilly, alarmed by her mother's increasingly erratic behaviour, is drawn into the disturbing atmosphere of the house as the distance between them grows. And with both of them seeing things, Laura realises that unless she unearths what drove her parents to flee the house, they will never be free of the past.

The Visitor is a compelling exploration of intergenerational trauma, dispossession and the ghosts we can't outrun from the bestselling author of The Imitator.

Author Bio

Rebecca Starford is the author ofBad Behaviour,a memoir about boarding school and bullying. The book was optioned for television by Matchbox Pictures and aired in Australia on STAN, as well as streamed through more than 20 other countries across the world. Rebecca's first novel,The Imitator, was published in Australia, and in the United States, Canada, the UK and South Africa under the title An Unlikely Spy.

She is also the co-founder and publishing director ofKill Your Darlings,and has previously worked for Text Publishing and Australian Book Review.Originally from Melbourne, Rebecca currently lives in France.