Her uncle runs a small museum of oddities and ‘wonders’ that Kara grew up loving, and she jumps at the chance to spend some time with her beloved uncle, and the museum she grew up with. Salvation comes when her uncle invites her to stay with him. With work being slim and little savings she’s facing the prospect of having to move back home with her mother something she dearly wants to avoid. The Hollow Places follows Kara, nicknamed Carrot, just after she divorces her husband. When this book was announced I was excited to see what they’d do next and I wasn’t disappointed at all. That quickly became one of my favourite books of 2019, and I adored the way that she was able to draw from older horror themes (in that case the work of Arthur Machen), and create something so thoroughly chilling. Kingfisher (the pen-name for chiefly children’s author Ursula Vernon) last year, with her horror book The Twisted Ones.
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