2022/18: The Haunting of Maddy Clare -- Simone St James

2022/18: The Haunting of Maddy Clare -- Simone St James

“I don’t have an opinion about ghosts. It’s people I don’t believe in, I suppose.” [loc. 157]

Sarah Piper lives alone in London, eking out a precarious existence by taking whatever temporary jobs the agency offers. Her latest employer is Alistair Gellis, a wealthy war veteran in need of a female assistant: he is a researcher of ghosts, and his usual companion, Matthew Ryder, is away ( Read more... )

2022/19: Moonwise -- Greer Ilene Gilman

2022/19: Moonwise -- Greer Ilene Gilman

But in Cloudwood it was endless hallows. There no wren was slain, no seed was scattered; though he cried the ravens from the turning wood, no winter ever came to green. The gate was lost... [p 23]

Two young women, Ariane and Sylvie, find themselves in balladland: in a chilly wintry wood, or on a moor, in the world of Cloud which they invented (or discovered) in a synergistic gleeful season of storytelling when they were younger.( Read more... )