The Starter House

(Paperback, Main)

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A house of dreams. A place of nightmares.

Lacey has longed for a home of her own all her life. When she views a dilapidated Victorian property on an exquisite tree-lined street, she falls in love. She believes that soon its beautiful sunlit rooms will be filled with the joy of the new family she will build there.

But the house doesn't want her. Beneath the dark stairway, at the bottom of the shadowy hall, there lies a secret: for decades, no child has survived this house, no woman has emerged anything less than broken. Lacey has made a mistake. Now she must fight to survive it - and to save those she loves most.

Reviews

Beautifully written in luminous prose, The Starter House kept me up late at night with its disturbing, tangled tale of childhood and what it means to be a parent... Condit's prose has so much heart and emotion... I couldn't put it down -- Yangsze Choo, author of THE GHOST BRIDE
Good, scary fun, packed with emotional nuance * Kirkus Reviews *
Its haunting elements are inescapable... A promising start by a new author * Booklist *
A stylish debut * Publishers Weekly *

Author Bio

Sonja Condit's short fiction has appeared in many publications. She is the principal bassoon of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium and she teaches at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.