Rebecca Starford
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Title: The Visitor
Author: Rebecca Starford
Format: Brand new paperback
ISBN: 9781761471148
Release date: 29 July 2025
When Laura returns to her childhood home in Brisbane after her parents' mysterious deaths, she’s pulled into a chilling web of grief, memory and hauntings(real or imagined). A slow-burning Australian Gothic that explores the ghosts of family and place.
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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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