The series will blend genre elements with a supernatural family drama spanning multiple generations. The Inside Flap Ep. 140 The Witching Hour Is Upon Us with C.J. Cooke - podcast = 1:30:00 – from about 30:00 Overall, I highly recommend The Ghost Woods , especially as a companion on a dark and gloomy autumnal night. I can see this becoming a favourite of the year for me personally. Various human emotions and dark sides merge seamlessly as the story progresses. It also requires a little suspension of belief to take a few things in stride.

The move comes after The Picture Company and Studiocanal reupped their multi-year deal to make a number of films per year. Part of the deal sees the two companies move into TV – they are already working on a series adaptation of the Johnnie To action thriller Drug War, with Jett’s Sebastian Gutierrez attached. Though there were multiple timelines and character perspectives to follow, the narrative felt pretty smooth to me. The writing keeps you hooked. Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. Do you come from Shetland?" Clover asked, running her fingertips along the stubbly wood-chip wallpaper. Wood chip was her favorite texture.Nordic folklore, snowy landscapes, and an ever-turning screw of tension—a fun, Gothic treat."—Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers

C. J. Cooke is an award-winning poet and novelist published in twenty-three languages. She teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, where she also researches the impact of motherhood on women’s writing and creative-writing interventions for mental health. Her previous novel is The Nesting. Overall, this book enthrals from start to finish with the ideas and concepts keeping you hooked. I love the cover too. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she’s initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers–except she’s still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she’ll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn’t realize just how much the truth will change her.This chilling tale weaves a web of superstition and truth that fans of Gothic horror won’t want to miss.”– Library Journal Single mother of three, Liv is left her former life behind. She has been commissioned to do a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island. It's an island steeped in history -witches were killed here. Specifically in 1662, women were imprisoned, tortured, and burned at the stake. Their cures one the land left the island reeling and people afraid, superstitious and in a strange way looking out for each other. Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found–but she’s still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches havereached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting.

I suppose the question could legitimately be asked whether motherhood, gay rights, reproductive rights, and gender inequality have any place in a gothic novel. For me, the gothic is exactly the space to explore darkness of any kind, and the practice of othering is one of the darkest corners of human history.

The lighthouse is in a dilapidated condition and has a history of witch huntings attached to it, as too have other parts of the island. It’s clearly somewhere with a strange unwelcoming vibe. Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall which has been the topic of folklore and legend for many years, responsible for countless old stories of ghosts haunting those who dare enter, always just on the periphery of vision, eluding your gaze. Of witches responsible for such lurid acts they could only have place in lore and myth for being so heinous for something took place on these old grounds, and now it longs to roam again. An original and haunting thriller, filled with secrets, ghosts, and Norse folk tales. The Nesting is an evocative and chilling tale that will keep you guessing, and is best read with the lights on.”—Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie Mysterious and terrible events have happened on this island. It started with a witch hunt. Now, centuries later, islanders are vanishing without explanation.

Still dumbfounded by the sketch, I said I would, but that I'd need to see inside the Longing first. Will Pearl ever succeed in freeing herself and her new friends from Nicnevin’s grasp or has she already been infected with the very thing that surrounds the grounds? There is no midwife, they must fend for themselves. When a problem arises no doctor is called. The red flags are already flapping madly in the wind! The story focuses on Mabel, Pearl, Morwen, Rahmi and Aretta.

At times it’s creepy and menacing as a suspenseful dark tale unfolds with even darker deeds which includes betrayal, murder, destruction, some cruelty, manipulation and violence. There is a big mystery that lies at the heart of Lichen Hall and the further the Pearl in particular digs, the more horrifying it becomes. I have to say that The Nesting is perhaps the best book I’ve ever read (in this genre) so my expectations were quite high. The characterisation is good throughout and the author gives us some to root for and cheer on especially in Mabel, her son Sylvan and Pearl. The portrayal of Sylvan is fascinating but my lips are sealed on how!