Parliament of Rooks by Karen Perkins

Parliament of Rooks by Karen Perkins

Parliament of Rooks, the new historical paranormal novel in the award-winning collection of Yorkshire Ghost Stories, contrasts the beautiful, inspiring village of Haworth today with the slum - or rookery - it was during the industrial revolution: rife with disease, heartache, poverty, and child slavery in the mills.

In 2017, life expectancy in the UK was 81.

In 1848 Haworth, it was 22.

Lush and atmospheric, this novel is dark and moody with supernatural elements and accurate historical details - Review from the BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly

Likened by independent reviewers on Amazon to the Bront sisters, Edgar Allen Poe, Barbara Erskine and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karen Perkins' novels are filled with unflinching honesty and an acute understanding of human nature. She explores not only the depths of humanity, but the depths of human motivation behind the actions and pain people inflict upon each other, as well as the repercussions of these actions not only in the short term, but also the later generations who live with the implications of the past. Karen Perkins won the silver medal for European Fiction in the 2015 IPY book awards, and her fiction has been at the top of bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, including #50 in the UK Kindle Store.

Nine-year-old Harry Sutcliff hates working at Rooks Mill and is forever in trouble for running away to the wide empty spaces of the moors - empty but for the song of the skylark, the antics of the rabbits, and the explorations of Emily Bront . Bound together by their love of the moors, Emily and Harry develop a lasting friendship, but not everyone is happy about it - especially Martha, Harry's wife.

As Martha's jealous rages grow in ferocity, Harry does not realise the danger he is in. A hundred and fifty years later, this danger also threatens Verity and her new beau, William. Only time will tell if Verity and William have the strength to fight off the ghosts determined to shape their lives, or whether they will succumb to an age-old betrayal.

Karen Perkins lives in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing as well as editing and formatting as proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. She has been a keen sailor since childhood, competing nationally and internationally until the day she had both National and European Ladies Champion titles - and a terminally bad back. She has written one novella (Ill Wind) and one full-length novel (Dead Reckoning - long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011) in the Valkyrie Series, both of which are number one bestsellers in Sea Adventures on Amazon.co.uk. A further Valkyrie novel, Look Sharpe! will be published at the beginning of 2014, followed by Ready About! Both books follow the fortunes of Henry Sharpe, a character we have already met in Ill Wind and Dead Reckoning. Relationships are turned upside down and secrets revealed. Karen Perkins has also written the novel, Thores-Cross. A dark, haunting tale set in the North Yorkshire Moors about isolation, superstition and persecution, Thores-Cross follows the stories of Emma, a present day writer, and Jennet, an eighteenth century witch. Thores-Cross is a number one bestseller in British Horror on Amazon.com. In the LionheART series of publishing guides, The LionheART Guide to Formatting is now available and the UK and US editions of The LionheART Guide to Editing Fiction will be available soon.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781910115930
ISBN 10	1910115932
Title	Parliament of Rooks
Author	Karen Perkins
Series	Ghosts Of Haworth
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	LionheART Publishing House
Year published	2018-07-01
Number of pages	276
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.