The Sleeper

Literature & Fiction

White, Gillian

Genre Fiction

Corgi Books

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Unhallowed Ground

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Corgi

Veil of Darkness

Contemporary

Transworld

¿How the people love a sinner, especially when she is a woman. Witch! Witch!¿ The Dark End of the Street is a television program that pries into the business of Barry and Cheryl Higgins and their three small children, uncovering every nasty aspect of their lives on welfare in front of a fascinated and disgusted audience. The couple didn't get rich off the wildly successful reality show, though, so why would anyone want to kidnap the kids? When the two older children are found, there is little doubt that Cheryl planned their disappearance to win the public's affection and boost the show's ratings. As the media and the legal system condemn Cheryl, one question remains: Where is baby Cara?Gillian White adeptly demonstrates how the public's need to know and to judge - and how people can profit from those impulses - is a modern kind of witch hunt.

The Witch's Cradle

All Rose asks of Michael is complete fidelity, and when she has cause to doubt him she devises a terrible revenge. Michael has planned an anniversary trip to Venice for the two of them, but as they ride in gondolas and wander the sights of this most romantic of cities, Rose, racked with secret jealousy, is making plans. By the time they return, Michael will have become seriously ill—although not so ill that he cannot recognize the fact that something truly dreadful has happened to him.

Night Visitor

Mystery

Transworld Publishers

Copycat

<p>Martha tolerated Jennie, took her on holiday, helped her with the children—but all the time she was wondering how much longer she could stand living next door to her. As time went on, however, the roles seemed to reverse. As Jennie became more confident and successful, Martha's life was falling apart. At times they seemed less like friends, and more like sworn enemies. Their relationship became bitter and twisted—a relationship which only one of them could survive.</p>

Shelley loves her kids passionately, but Joey, her eldest, has always been a problem. She has defended him through all his misdemeanours, but when he is involved in the death of a young baby, she is distraught. When the authorities send her and her family to the Boltons' remote farm, they find a refuge. But many families have come to the Boltons' farm, and not all of them have left it.

Refuge

British & Irish

Like a combination of Cold Comfort Farm and Psycho, Gillian White's brilliant new novel begins very quietly, almost romantically, then builds inexorably to nearly unbearable suspense.  It's about an attractive, fortyish widow, very lively but deeply wounded in her psyche, who inherits her brother's cottage in a remote part of rural Devon. Georgie is a London social worker in flight from unwanted tabloid celebrity when a child who is part of her caseload is killed. The little girl's father has been under suspicion of abusing the child, and Georgie is accused by the press of having ignored all the warning signs and abandoned the little girl to her father's cruel, and finally fatal, beating. An inquiry exonerates Georgie, but the press doesn't forgive her, and she can't forgive herself, so when she inherits her brother's cottage, she is happy to go there and sort things out.  Georgie settles in and takes stock of her neighbors. Chad Cramer, a small-time thief and poacher, has appropriated most of her brother's belongings and lives with Donna, a witless but somehow disturbing waif, who is clearly in terror of Chad; the Buckpits, dairy farmers, a ferocious, brooding gorgon of a mother and two hulking, brutish sons; and Nancy and George Horsefield, a well-to-do married couple whose brightly expensive lifestyle seems to conceal some hidden tragedy, for Mrs. H. is clearly crazy, and Mr. H., though he cares for her, is strangely on edge....  For a while, Georgie gets by restoring the cottage to something approaching livability and cleaning up the garden shed, in which something strange has clearly been going on, and her life seems almost idyllic.  Then a darker note is heard. Georgie sees a mysterious and threatening stranger, who runs away when Georgie approaches; Chad Cramer turns nasty; Donna begins to cling to Georgie; Mrs. Buckpit is openly hostile; and Georgie continues to be haunted by the child who was under her care and died, and by the thought of the child's father in prison now. As the summer ends, the countryside begins to turn savage and threatening, and now real terror creeps in. Georgie's beloved dog is stolen, her attempt at painting is livened up with splashes of blood, an intruder stares into her cottage at night with a baleful eye...  Finally, step by step, the horror increases to Psycho level as a snowstorm isolates the village and cuts Georgie off from the world -- leaving her at the mercy of a killer whose identity she can't even guess as the ax descends on her...

Barry and Cheryl only wanted to be famous, and so agreed to be the subjects of a fly-on-the-wall television documentary. But then their three small children mysteriously disappear. Have they been abducted? Murdered? Or is there some even more sinister explanation for their disappearance?

In a remote farmhouse, the Moon family gathers for its traditional Christmas. Clover Moon, the farmer's wife, knows that her mother-in-law regards her as an inadequate and unsuitable wife for her beloved only son. But would she actually go so far as to try and kill her?

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The Sleeper

Unhallowed Ground

Veil of Darkness

The Witch's Cradle

Night Visitor

Copycat

Refuge

Unhallowed Ground

The Witch's Cradle

The Sleeper