The Visitor by Rebecca Starford

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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