Hare House: An Atmospheric Modern-day Tale of Witchcraft – the Perfect Autumn Read

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Hare House: An Atmospheric Modern-day Tale of Witchcraft – the Perfect Autumn Read

Hare House: An Atmospheric Modern-day Tale of Witchcraft – the Perfect Autumn Read

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In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances.

At first she seems to be on holiday, but then she just offers to rent on a more long-term basis, and she’s in. No specific spoilers; but discusses some points that you might want to read about in the book first.The opening image of the hare, run over by a bus, dying a lingering death; the hares, stuffed and posed, in various tableaux in Hare House; the hares running alongside our narrator by the roadside. The prose was lovely and there were a few times that I'd pause to think over the choice of words and digest them.

It was crudely done, the letters crammed in towards the end, the paint running, but it was still clear. It is the start of the year, the weather has chilled so far that the car needs de-icing in the morning and I am reliant on my head torch for my morning runs, and I am both driving to work in the dark, and coming home in the dark. The premise and title, teamed with a direct comparison to Andrew Michael Hurley in the blurb, made me fear it would be derivative; what with the isolated country house and the hare motif, I thought it might be too similar to Starve Acre.By the end of the book I couldn't care less if all of them (Davey and perhaps Kirsty and Dougie excepted) had been devoured by a giant carnivorous hare. There are moments in this book that comfort and console me, and others that leave me chilled to the bone – not in a ‘spooky’ way, but existentially.

It’s difficult to go into too many details without spoilers but this falls somewhere between psychological and supernatural mystery – with a nod towards folk horror.I thought this would be a perfect seasonal read - lonely country house in Scotland, mysterious happenings, a family with a tragic past and a woman with a secret.



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