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November 1926. The frost is coming up the glass at Ashbourne Hall, a great Yorkshire manor full of locked rooms and longer silences — and seven women are about to be summoned home by an invitation no one will admit to sending.
THE SEVEN WOMEN OF ASHBOURNE is a haunting gothic mystery of family secrets, sisterhood, and the women history tried to erase — perfect for readers of Kate Morton, Diane Setterfield, Sarah Perry, Laura Purcell, and Stacey Halls.
Behind the panelling of the east wing, the family has kept a room for twenty-seven years. In it: a stove that is still warm, two cups washed and set to drain, a register that was never allowed into any parish book, and the letters of a governess who was mourned in the newspapers every September for twelve years — while she went on living behind the wall.
When a scratched photograph, a scraped brass plate, and a knock that answers twice begin to un-bury the truth, novelist Charlotte Pembroke must confess the part she played — and discover that the wound she believed was hers alone to open was authored long before she was born. Then one of the guests is found dead, and the quietest keeper in the house must decide what a name is worth.
A slow-burn gothic suspense novel of grief after the Great War, of sisters separated by a pact they never understood, and of a silence passed down like an estate — until the women who inherited it begin, one testimony at a time, to speak.
YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK IF YOU:
— Love atmospheric English manor mysteries and dark family sagas
— Devour slow-burn historical mysteries with devastating emotional payoffs
— Care about women’s untold stories and the records that forgot them
— Want 1920s post-WWI fiction where the war is felt, not lectured
Scroll up and step through the fern door. The door stands ajar — and Ashbourne has been waiting for you.
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