Shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2017 British Fantasy Awards
Den of Geek Top Books of 2016
Ginger Nuts of Horror Top 20 Books of 2016
After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium.
Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments and Kirsten moves in, fresh from a break up and eager for the restorative calm of the Thames. But her archivist neighbour, Manon, fills her head with the river's murky past and with those men of science and art who were obsessed with the drowned women who were washed up on its banks.
As Kirsten learns more about Wakewater's secrets, she becomes haunted by a solitary figure in the river and increasingly desperate to understand what the water wants from her.
- ISBN10 1444831933
- ISBN13 9781444831931
- Publish Date 1 March 2017 (first published 15 May 2016)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 June 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Imprint Ulverscroft Ltd
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 174
- Language English