‘Burns combines a study of a middle-aged woman, a tale of a highly dysfunctional family and slow burn of a mystery, creating a compelling read that’s at once highly entertaining and wholly disturbing … A dark and thrilling debut novel: disturbing, gripping, and hugely impressive’ The Bookbag I couldn’t stop reading it’ Suellen Dainty A very clever confident novel, beautifully plotted with multiple twists and turns. Catherine Burns has created a complex and chilling world in which nothing is as it seems. ‘An insightful study of loneliness and evil’ Daily Mail ‘Burns blurs the line between crime fiction and horror… Deliberate pacing, a claustrophobic setting, and vivid, wildly unsympathetic characters complement the twisted plot and grim conclusion’ Publishers Weekly The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable’ Iain Reid ‘Once you start Catherine Burns’s dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it’s hard to stop. Until, suddenly, John has a heart attack and Marion is forced to go down to the cellar herself and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hidden.Īs questions are asked and secrets unravel, maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to shut out the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellar. Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort. Perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware.
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Athanasius refused to water down, minimize, or step around the most breathtaking paradox of the Catholic faith the incarnation of the Son of God. But during his life, what would he be willing to set aside personal honor and praise in order to preserve? What would he face persecution and exile for rather than compromise? St. His stand was finally vindicated by council upon council of the Church in the decades and centuries following his death, and a creed was even titled with his name as a monument to his clear vision of the Holy Trinity. When the time came to show resolve, he set his face as a flint against the onslaught of heresy that began to overtake the fourth-century Church, and for this he was maligned and exiled repeatedly. Athanasius (296-373 AD) is known for one thing above all else, it is that he stood for Christian orthodoxy contra mundum, against the world. Ugly Love is one of Colleen Hoover’s most noteworthy releases. 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