The House of Whispers by Anna Mazzola
The thrilling, mesmerising and darkly delicious new novel from Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl.
A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph! * JENNIFER SAINT *
Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, this is a thrilling mystery with many eerie twists and turns to keep you hooked all through the night * ESSIE FOX *
Powerful, spine-tingling and beautifully penned, this is gothic historical fiction at its very best and cements Mazzola as one of its most talented exponents * ABIR MUKHERJEE *
Darkly atmospheric and dripping with menaceAnna Mazzola is a twisted genius * TAMMY COHEN *
Absolutely brilliant. Gripping, beautifully written and properly chilling * CAROLINE GREEN *
Beautiful, chilling, and darkly enchanting. Anna Mazzola is a truly gifted storyteller, and in The House of Whispers has created a novel so rich in detail, so clever and twisting * CHRIS WHITAKER *
Eerie and unsettling, but perhaps Anna Mazzola's superbly realised depiction of a nation gripped by the horrors of fascism is the most terrifying thing of all * KATE GRIFFIN *
A wonderful tale, if also deeply unsettling and creepy. I ripped through The House of Whispers in double quick time * JAMES OSWALD *
Robert Harris meets M.R. James in an evocative gothic tale set in a Rome on the edge of catastrophe . . . Mazzola's dazzling imagination is at its very peak * DAVID HEWSON *
The sense of place is impeccable, the sense of danger truly chilling * SINÉAD CROWLEY *
The thrilling tale of a woman caught between the pressures of pre-war Italy and the more mysterious manifestations of something amiss in her own household * ALISON LITTLEWOOD *
A delicately told ghost story set in the bright heat of 1930s Italy. Claustrophobic and compelling * AMANDA MASON *
Packed with political and emotional intrigue . . . historically rich and deeply unsettling * SARAH HILARY *
Gothic, immersive and very, very scary . . . Set in 1939 Rome against the rise of fascism, injecting a powerful sense of dread * ALLY WILKES *
A gripping, thrilling story which had me hooked from the start, as the terrifying reality of fascism in pre-war Italy is increasingly entwined in an anguished marriage * MARY CHAMBERLAIN *
Tense historical fiction like no other . . . Dark and mysterious with whispers of a buried past hidden in the walls. I cannot recommend The House of Whispers highly enough * AJ WEST *
Supernatural events in a house mirror the creeping fascism in 1930s Rome . . . An absolute page turner * JULIE OWEN MOYLAN *
What a rare treat . . . Offers a real insight into a little-explored era - in this case Mussolini's fascist destruction of Italy. Utterly authentic * AK TURNER *
Anna Mazzola skilfully blends personal trauma and political violence in her novel of innocence destroyed and betrayal - and adds a dash of Gothic for good measure * ELIZABETH BUCHAN *
Fascinating, tense and very, very creepy * MICHAEL MALONE *
Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, this is a thrilling mystery with many eerie twists and turns to keep you hooked all through the night * ESSIE FOX *
Powerful, spine-tingling and beautifully penned, this is gothic historical fiction at its very best and cements Mazzola as one of its most talented exponents * ABIR MUKHERJEE *
Darkly atmospheric and dripping with menaceAnna Mazzola is a twisted genius * TAMMY COHEN *
Absolutely brilliant. Gripping, beautifully written and properly chilling * CAROLINE GREEN *
Beautiful, chilling, and darkly enchanting. Anna Mazzola is a truly gifted storyteller, and in The House of Whispers has created a novel so rich in detail, so clever and twisting * CHRIS WHITAKER *
Eerie and unsettling, but perhaps Anna Mazzola's superbly realised depiction of a nation gripped by the horrors of fascism is the most terrifying thing of all * KATE GRIFFIN *
A wonderful tale, if also deeply unsettling and creepy. I ripped through The House of Whispers in double quick time * JAMES OSWALD *
Robert Harris meets M.R. James in an evocative gothic tale set in a Rome on the edge of catastrophe . . . Mazzola's dazzling imagination is at its very peak * DAVID HEWSON *
The sense of place is impeccable, the sense of danger truly chilling * SINÉAD CROWLEY *
The thrilling tale of a woman caught between the pressures of pre-war Italy and the more mysterious manifestations of something amiss in her own household * ALISON LITTLEWOOD *
A delicately told ghost story set in the bright heat of 1930s Italy. Claustrophobic and compelling * AMANDA MASON *
Packed with political and emotional intrigue . . . historically rich and deeply unsettling * SARAH HILARY *
Gothic, immersive and very, very scary . . . Set in 1939 Rome against the rise of fascism, injecting a powerful sense of dread * ALLY WILKES *
A gripping, thrilling story which had me hooked from the start, as the terrifying reality of fascism in pre-war Italy is increasingly entwined in an anguished marriage * MARY CHAMBERLAIN *
Tense historical fiction like no other . . . Dark and mysterious with whispers of a buried past hidden in the walls. I cannot recommend The House of Whispers highly enough * AJ WEST *
Supernatural events in a house mirror the creeping fascism in 1930s Rome . . . An absolute page turner * JULIE OWEN MOYLAN *
What a rare treat . . . Offers a real insight into a little-explored era - in this case Mussolini's fascist destruction of Italy. Utterly authentic * AK TURNER *
Anna Mazzola skilfully blends personal trauma and political violence in her novel of innocence destroyed and betrayal - and adds a dash of Gothic for good measure * ELIZABETH BUCHAN *
Fascinating, tense and very, very creepy * MICHAEL MALONE *
Anna Mazzola is an award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and her third novel, The Clockwork Girl, was a Sunday Times historical fiction pick for 2022.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781398703858 |
| ISBN 10 | 1398703850 |
| Title | The House of Whispers |
| Author | Anna Mazzola |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2023-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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