Synopsis
'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything Under
In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted...
In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted...
Details
30 January 2025304 pages
9781804185315Imprint: Ithaka
Reviews
'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it'Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
'Brilliant. Incisive and unique, sometimes sad, but always clear-sighted and gripping'Sara Baume
'Linda Segtnan audaciously faces her own worst fears as a mother in a book at once devastatingly moving, rigorously thoughtful and sweepingly ambitious'Lara Feigel, author of The Bitter Taste of Victory
'Evocative and poetic. The Eighth House contrasts of all the hope that comes with bringing life into the world with the terror of knowing the danger that can lie ahead. The result is fascinating, chilling and utterly haunting'Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A memoir of motherhood and madness
