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Beneath the stairs : a novel / Jennifer Fawcett.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982177157
- ISBN: 1982177152
- Physical Description: 340 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "In this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut for fans of Jennifer McMahon, Simone St. James, and Chris Bohjalian, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house-the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago. Few in sleepy Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York town tried to bury. One summer night, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into the Octagon House. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did. Twenty years later, an adult Clare receives word that Abby has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma. With little to lose and still grieving after a personal tragedy, Clare returns to her roots to uncover the darkness responsible for Abby's accident. An eerie page-turner, Beneath the Stairs is about the trauma that follows us from childhood to adulthood and returning to the beginning to reach the end"-- Provided by publisher. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Haunted houses > Fiction. Suicidal behavior > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. New York (State) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Horror fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
Beneath the Stairs : A Novel
Before writing books, Jennifer Fawcett was an award-winning playwright and cofounder of the theater company Working Group. She is the author of Beneath the Stairs . Born and raised in Canada, she spent a decade living in the Midwest before settling in the Hudson Valley. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Her plays have been published by Original Works and in Third Coast Magazine , Reunion: The Dallas Review , and in the anthology Long Story Short . Visit her at JenniferFawcettAuthor.com
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