Hiding from the light / Barbara Erskine Erskine, Barbara

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Erskine, Barbara
Subjects
Ghost stories.; Good and evil - Fiction.; Essex (England) - Fiction.
Audience
General; Adult
Summary
Emma Dickson has a successful City career and a flourishing relationship. So why does the advertisement for sale of Liza's Cottage, a house she remembers from childhood holidays on the rural Essex coast, turn her well-ordered life upside down with longing? Mike Sinclair is fascinated by the history of the parish, especially the seventeenth century, when Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins conducted his terrible work. Emma pins her dreams on her move to Mistley - but once there, she is haunted by nightmares, dreams of the past, and of the cottage's original owner at the time of the witch-hunt. As the ancient feast of Halloween approaches, an escalating sense of menace threatens to explode into terrifying violence. Emma Dickson has a successful City career and a flourishing relationship, but when she sees the advertisement for the sale of Liza's Cottage, a house she remembers from childhood holidays on the rural Essex coast, she is filled with longing. Emma pins her dreams on her move to Mistley. But, once there, she is haunted by nightmares, dreams of the cottage's original owner at the time of a witch-hunt in the seventeenth century. Mike Sinclair, the new Rector of Manningtree and Mistley, is worried by the increasing level of supernatural disturbance in his parish. What has led to the growing sense of unease and violence? Can they work out how to defeat the evil before it destroys them all?
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