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Rebecca Starford

The Visitor by Rebecca Starford

The Visitor by Rebecca Starford

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Laura returns to Brisbane to clear a weatherboard and make sense of two deaths that do not add up. The neighbour knows too much. Shadows slide where they should not. Fourteen-year-old Tilly watches her mother slip between grief and something stranger.

What begins as a clean-out becomes a reckoning over who gets to tell a family’s story. Starford builds dread with small noises and long afternoons, and the ending feels earned. Tropes: Australian gothic, haunted house as grief, intergenerational secrets.

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  • Format: Trade paperback
  • ISBN: 9781761471148
  • Publication date: 29 Jul 2025
  • Condition: Brand new

Why this book matters

A careful blend of suspense and emotion that treats place as a living force. It is creepy without losing sight of the people at its centre.

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Kate Morton, Hannah Kent, Emily O’Grady.

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Blurb

For most of her adult life, Laura has lived in the UK, her ties to her Brisbane upbringing all but severed. When her parents, Bruce and Eliza, perish in mysterious circumstances in the Queensland outback, she and her family must return to settle their affairs and sell the now-dilapidated house of her childhood.

But as the renovations progress, Laura starts to experience strange happenings in the house that cannot be explained away. Is it haunted? Or is the woman next door, who had inveigled her way into Bruce and Eliza's lives, testing her as she copes with the grief and trauma of their deaths?

Fourteen-year-old Tilly, alarmed by her mother's increasingly erratic behaviour, is drawn into the disturbing atmosphere of the house as the distance between them grows. And with both of them seeing things, Laura realises that unless she unearths what drove her parents to flee the house, they will never be free of the past.

The Visitor is a compelling exploration of intergenerational trauma, dispossession and the ghosts we can't outrun, from the bestselling author of The Imitator.

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