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The Two Houses: a gripping novel of buried secrets and those who hide them

The Two Houses sit grey and brooding beneath a pale sky. They cling to the hillside, cowering from the wind, because always, before everything up here, there is the wind. In the not-quite-light of a November afternoon, this whole strange world is beaten by it; the spindly trees, the long sedge grasses, even the houses themselves seem to bend under its assault.The Two Houses were not always two. But if it is human to build – even up here, in this blasted northern hinterland – it is human to break, too.After an acclaimed career in ceramics making things and breaking things, it is now Jay herself who has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she and her husband Simon move to the desolate edges of the Yorkshire moors, where they find and fall in love with the Two Houses: a crumbling Victorian property whose central rooms were supposedly so haunted that a previous owner had them cut out from the building entirely.But on uprooting their city life and moving to the sheltered grey village of Hestle, Jay and Simon discover it`s not only the Two Houses that seems to be haunted by an obscure past. It becomes increasingly clear that the villagers don`t want them there at all – and when building work to make the two houses whole again starts, a discovery is made that will unearth decades-old secrets . . .`Fine writing . . . Cooper`s expertly realised characters, both sympathetic and not, have stories interwoven with aplomb` Daily Mail`Confident and brilliant` Lisa O`Donnell

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