The Coffin Path: 'The perfect ghost story'

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Review ------ A wonderfully sinister novel [with] a unique heroine... But the real star here is Clements's beautiful, unsparing evocation of a bygone life on these unforgiving moors (The Times) A striking combination of Brontëan romantic melodrama and gothic ghost story... Clements has written an eerily gripping novel in which the ghosts of the past haunt the present in more ways than one (The Sunday Times) Spine-tingling... the iest ghost story I have read in a long time. Beautifully written, fantastically atmospheric, it left me less and in tears (Barbara Erskine) Intense, twisty drama... the atmospheric writing and the strong evocation of the landscape are terrific (Daily Mail) Brooding and full of creeping menace (Laura Purcell) A wonderful piece of Yorkshire Gothic, all the more effective for being so firmly anchored in its time and place... like something from Emily Bronte's nightmares (Andrew Taylor, author of The Ashes of London) The Coffin Path is the perfect ghost story: utterly absorbing, immersed in a world so completely authentic, peopled by men, women, children - and the beasts of a shepherding life - so completely and blood that when the not-so- arise, it's *terrifying*. But not only that, it's a beautifully wrought evocation of a world and a time that feels as if it's just around the corner. If you like Michelle Paver, you'll love this, but fans of Mantel will love it too - the language is a delight, the word-smithing pitch-perfect, and the narrative drive compelling. This is a book about passion and fear, blood and death and life and love and all the pieces from which life is wrought - if you read only one book this year, make it this one, you won't regret it (Manda Scott) Clements brings alive the bleak beauty of the moors with a chilling ghost story that vividly portrays the superstitions and beliefs of 17th-century rural society (Sunday Express S Magazine) Oozing with gothic symbolism, this brooding and beautiful ghost story is guaranteed to haunt your dreams long after the cover has been closed (Essie Fox) W&H March Great Read - not to be read alone late at night (Woman & Home) Book Description ---------------- A eerie, gothic ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors.