Julian's House My Soul To Keep About
the Author Bibliography Judith Hawkes
Julian's House
My Soul To Keep
About
the Author
Bibliography
Julian's House
Hodder & Stoughton Coronet Pbk (0 340 67159 9) £5.99
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"A ghost tale... a detective story.... A dazzling evocation of
haunting"
Sally and David Curtiss know that the old New England house is supposed to be haunted.
But they are researchers into the paranormal - they aren't afraid of ghosts. That's before
they realise that nowhere in the house are they safe. Not even in each other's arms.
Especially not there...
"Who wouldn't like to talk to the dead? Who hasn't felt the chill of fear in a
dark cellar? Suspense that can make event the heart of a confirmed sceptic beat a little
faster" The New York Times Book Review
"A witch's brew in the tradition of Shirley Jackson. Ms Hawkes is a true
mistress of the macabre" Dallas Morning News
"A ghost story... fashioned of perfect language... Gives us sexuality,
apparitions, beautiful daytime light and night-time menace, eeriness to creep up your back
and break you out in sweats and goose bumps.. the screws turn even more tightly" Baltimore
Sun
"A thinking person's ghost story" Boston Herald
"Fascinating, memorable and unsettling... and excellent novel: character-rich,
stylish, quietly chilling" Kirkus Reviews
My Soul To Keep
£5.99 Hodder
& Stoughton (0 340 66581 5) £16.99
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Sometimes even ghosts get lonely...
Nan hardly knew her grandmother - visited her only once, the summer she was nine, and she
has only vague memories of playing with a boy named Tucker. It's distant and unreal, like
a movie that she saw a long time ago. A movie with a sad ending -Tucker's death by
drowning.
Inheriting her grandmother's old farmhouse comes as a surprise, but when Nan's life starts
to fall apart, going there for the summer seems the obvious answer. The mountains of
Tennessee are a long way from Manhattan. And she can spend some time with her
eight-year-old son, Stephen. Since the break-up of her marriage Nan has been forced to
face the humiliating fact that she isn't cut out to be a mother.
In spite of that, Nan loves her son desperately, and is disturbed to find that the
imaginary friend from his nursery-school days seems to have returned to keep Stephen
company at the farmhouse. This friend is different, though: this friend is teaching
Stephen dangerous tricks. Stephen says his friend is lonely...
An atmospheric suspense novel and chilling ghost story, My Soul To Keep will
have you turning the pages till the early hours of dawn.
Judith Hawkes spent ten years researching the paranormal for Julian's House, her first novel. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she lives in New York City.
