At the Bottom of the Garden

A murderous aunt, strangely gifted children and witchcraft come together in Camilla Bruce’s new intensely dark adult Gothic fairytale. For fans of Catriona Ward and C.J. Cooke

The dead won’t stay silent forever…

‘All the elegance and all the venom, like one of E. Nesbit’s supernatural stories served with a side of arsenic.’ Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

Clara Woods is a killer. At the bottom of the garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace – or so she always thought. Until the girls arrived.

Lily and Violet are her adolescent nieces, recently orphaned and in urgent need of care. Raising teenagers is certainly not what Clara had envisioned for herself, but the girls come with a hefty sum attached.

There is only one problem: both girls are untrained witches. Lily can literally see how people feel and knows when they lie. And young Violet can see the dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see all the dead, and she can call them back.

Soon Clara is surrounded by apparitions, Lily and Violet have become a liability – and know far more than they should. Now a war is waging in this house, and only one side can win…

‘Theatrical and deliciously dark, this book is pure magic’ A.J. West, author of The Spirit Engineer

‘One gorgeously morbid gothic novel that’s just as gleeful as it is gashlycrumb.’ Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters