But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her. 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. Clover is the sister she remembers-except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge.
She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters-Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. Twenty years later, one is found-but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. It is soon to be a major TV series produced by StudioCanal and The Picture Company.Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Her 2021 novel, The Lighthouse Witches, was nominated for an Edgar Award and an ITW Thriller Award, and is an international bestseller. Her fiction is often classed as feminist gothic and/or psychological suspense.ĬJ’s previous works include The Boy Who Could See Demons(2012), about a psychiatrist and her 10-year-old charge in post-Troubles Belfast, which was critically appraised by The New York Times, The Guardian, Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, and The New York Review of Books , and I Know My Name, which was a No. She writes about motherhood, mental illness, and trauma. A few decades later, her work is published in 23 languages, has won numerous awards, and has been optioned for film and television. Atmospheric, gothic, spine-chilling… “Haunting… mysterious” – Entertainment Weekly “Jess-Cooke is one to watch” – Publisher’s Weekly “Intense, thrilling… this is grip-lit at its best” – ELLE magazineĬJ Cooke wrote her first book aged seven.
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