The Story Keeper: A twisty, atmospheric story of folk tales, family secrets and disappearances

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Anna Mazzola

The Story Keeper

A twisty, atmospheric story of folk tales, family secrets and disappearances

Anna Mazzola

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Headline
08 January 2019

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Myth & legend told as fiction; Historical fiction

From the author of The Unseeing comes a sizzling, period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustice set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to readers of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites or Beth Underdown's The Witch Finder's Sister.

Audrey Hart is on the Isle of Skye to collect the folk and fairy tales of the people and communities around her. It is 1857 and the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and a community riven by fear. The crofters are suspicious and hostile to a stranger, claiming they no longer know their fireside stories.

Then Audrey discovers the body of a young girl washed up on the beach and the crofters reveal that it is only a matter of weeks since another girl disappeared. They believe the girls are the victims of the restless dead: spirits who take the form of birds.

Initially, Audrey is sure the girls are being abducted, but as events accumulate she begins to wonder if something else is at work. Something which may be linked to the death of her own mother, many years before.

By: Anna Mazzola
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9781472234803
ISBN 10: 1472234804
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 08 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Mazzola's first novel, THE UNSEEING, was published to critical acclaim in 2016. She is a criminal justice solicitor and lives in South East London with her husband and two children.

Reviews for The Story Keeper: A twisty, atmospheric story of folk tales, family secrets and disappearances

An intriguing story, and the threat of a miscarriage of justice, as well as the frailties of an imperfect advocate, keep the suspense going - Daily Mail A twisting tale of family secrets and unacknowledged desires. Intricately plotted and extremely convincing in its evocation of the everyday realities of 1830s London, this is a fine first novel - Sunday Times I can't remember the last time a book gave me such pure, unalloyed pleasure... I can't imagine reading another new novel, and certainly not a debut, as thrilling and moving as this one - Irish Independent