Marianne Kavanagh

 

Disturbance

 

Out now – published by Hodder & Stoughton in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook 

You don’t know what’s going on in Sara’s house…Or in her head.

 

Sara lives with her bad-tempered husband and two teenage sons in the biggest house in the village. She’s lonely and isolated.

Then Katie, a college student, knocks on her door and offers to walk the dog. A whole new world of friendship opens up. Sara even meets her neighbours, who rush to help when she’s devastated by a shocking accident.

But nothing is quite what it seems. It gets harder and harder to work out who’s lying and who’s telling the truth. When her husband’s hostile sister makes an unwelcome reappearance, fuelling village gossip, relationships crack.

Sara has no choice: she must act to protect the safety of those she loves.

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Praise for DISTURBANCE

“It is such a strange, uncomfortable, bleakly, horribly funny sort of book. It let me know something was frighteningly off kilter from the first page, but not what it was until very near the end. The voice is such a wonderfully odd thing – sinister and droll, arch and cold at the same time – I can’t quite see how she pulled it off. So subtly done, and well achieved, and horrifyingly, hilariously believable – just the blackest of delights.” Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell

“There’s such a powerful mood of unease about Disturbance. I read through my fingers, praying my suspicions weren’t true…” Louise Candlish, author of Our House

“A massively enjoyable book – creepy, funny, surprising and absolutely unputdownable. My only wish is that I hadn’t finished it so quickly.” Daisy Waugh

“I raced through it. Dark, tense and very twisty.” Tamsin Grey, author of She’s Not There

“The tension doesn’t let up – taut all the way through with a creeping sense of horror as it unfolds, and the end is positively chilling.” Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange

“A dark, disturbing slowburn of a novel that I consumed with an increasing and justified sense of foreboding.” Fanny Blake

“With a delicious sense of creeping menace, an uncertainty about where truth lies and with mounting claustrophobic tension, Marianne Kavanagh’s novel offers a pleasingly dark take on the much-vaunted attractions of English village life.” Stella Duffy

“Dark and unpredictable, yet scarily plausible, domestic noir.” L. V. Hay, author of Do No Harm

“Very disturbing, dark and satisfyingly twisty.” Carys Bray, author of The Museum of You

“Twisty, dark and clever. What a brilliantly realised character Sara is.” Anna Mazzola, author of The Story Keeper