While You Sleep: A chilling, unputdownable psychological thriller that will send shivers up your spine!

While You Sleep: A chilling, unputdownable psychological thriller that will send shivers up your spine!
Stephanie Merritt

A PACY, CHILLING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO STOP READING!‘Intensely atmospheric’ Mail on SundayA house full of secrets…The McBride house lies on a remote Scottish island, isolated and abandoned. A century ago, a young widow and her son died mysteriously there. Last year a local boy, visiting for a dare, disappeared without a trace.A woman alone at night…For Zoe Adams, the house offers an escape from her failing marriage. But when night falls, her peaceful retreat is disrupted—scratches at the door, strange voices—and Zoe is convinced she is being watched.A threat that lurks in the shadows…The locals tell Zoe the incidents are merely echoes of the house’s dark past. Zoe is sure the danger is all too real—but can she uncover the truth before she is silenced?

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Copyright © Stephanie Merritt 2018

Excerpt from A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland © Sara Maitland 2008

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Source ISBN: 9780008248208

Ebook Edition © March 2018 ISBN: 9780008248222

Version: 2018-06-11

Epigraph (#ub5e9202d-7191-5822-bded-edca3cf7cbc1)

‘When those are the very things one is hoping to escape from through silence, it is not at all surprising that one starts to see one’s longings as “works of the devil” and this sense of the demonic is itself intensified by the silence.’

Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#u61090d8e-03d8-5fe1-8e79-bd883c3d0471)

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Epigraph (#uaa5a2839-74b6-51a3-9bc0-0f2131b4b5a6)

Prologue (#u7a66e72e-417f-5bef-9c05-399dd5291ea0)

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