The Vanishment
By (Author) Jonathan Aycliffe
Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
16th October 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
240
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 15mm
196g
Peter and Sarah s marriage has reached an impasse; their holiday in beautiful Cornwall is chosen to mend old wounds and bandage past pain. The house they go to has space space for their writing, their painting, and their reconciliation. It has space too for its own memories and its own unforgettable horrors but they are not to know that.
When the locals are less than friendly than they might be and when the house sighs with its secrets, the sands of their marriage shift and then Sarah vanishes and Peter is left alone. Or is hePraise for Jonathan Aycliffe: Aycliffe has a fine touch Independent Aycliffe conjures up a feeling of dread that deepens with each unsettling incident Time Out Naomi s Room must rank among the finest of English ghost stories They certainly don t come more dark or fearsome. Newcastle Evening ChronicleJonathan Aycliffe was born in Belfast in 1949. He studied English, Persian, Arabic and Islamic studies at the universities of Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge, and lectured at the universities of Fez in Morocco and Newcastle upon Tyne. The author of several ghost stories, he lives in the north of England with his wife. He also writes as Daniel Easterman, under which name he has penned several bestselling thrillers.