While You Sleep

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A PACY, CHILLING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU WONT BE ABLE TO STOP READING!
It begins, they say, with a woman screaming

On a remote Scottish island, the McBride house stands guard over its secrets. A century ago, a young widow and her son died mysteriously there; just last year a local boy, visiting for a dare, disappeared without a trace.

For Zoe Adams, newly arrived from America, the house offers a refuge from her failing marriage. But her peaceful retreat is disrupted by strange and disturbing events: night-time intrusions; unknown voices; a constant sense of being watched.

The locals want her to believe that these incidents are echoes of the McBrides' dark past. Zoe is convinced the danger is closer at hand, and all too real but can she uncover the truth before she is silenced

Reviews

Creepy, clever, atmospheric, a fabulous Gothic thriller Kate Mosse

Atmospheric, spellbinding as haunting as the best of Du Maurier, as psychologically astute as Kate Atkinson. Read it and shiver A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

A contemporary, edgy and, at times, terrifying tale Daily Mail

Fast-paced, psychologically astute and intensely atmospheric, this is a real page-turner that builds to a gripping dnouement Mail on Sunday

Alarmingly unnervingdeliciously gothic Observer

Creepy psychological thriller about secrets Sun

Pure edge-of-the-seat stuff: a fantastically entertaining, yet deeply unsettling read Julie Myerson

Forget sleep this broodingly creepy gothic tale of love, lust and loss on a remote Scottish island kept me awake most of the night, partly from fear, but mostly because I couldn't put it down Fiona Neill, bestselling author of The Betrayals

The isolated setting, unreliable narrator, and menacing cast of characters all come together for a genuinely terrifying read! Amy Engel, bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls

A sumptuously written contemporary Gothic thrillerat turns chilling, poignant, and sensuous Gregg Hurwitz, bestselling author of Orphan X

While You Sleep makes for utterly riveting bedtime reading. Steph has taken familiar ingredients and made something fresh and frankly terrifying from them. I loved it Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Ashes of London

Sexy, scary and gripping Cass Green, bestselling author of In a Cottage In a Wood

A genuinely terrifying, unsettlingly erotic blend of supernatural and physical peril Irish Times

Merrittlifts this bone-chiller far above the usual ghost story Good Housekeeping

Atmospheric Sunday Times Culture Magazine

A spine-chilling Gothic suspense novel Red Magazine

Hits a midpoint between Broadchurch and Anne Bronts The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Guardian

A witty psychological ghost story Guardian Review

Author Bio

No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and journalist Stephanie Merritt has worked as a critic and feature writer for a variety of newspapers and magazines, as well as radio and television. Writing as S. J. Parris, she is the fastest growing historical crime writer in the UK with over half a million copies sold across the first four books in her series of historical thrillers set in Tudor England. She currently writes for the Observer and the Guardian, and lives in Surrey with her son.