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David Keenan
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Scottish BookThe Whistling – The most chilling and spine-tingling ghost story (Paperback)
Author: Rebecca Netley
£9.95
ScotlandSet in Highlands & IslandsDark HorrorPsychological HorrorPsychological Suspense
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Add for £10A spine-chilling gothic ghost tale where a nanny arrives on a remote Scottish island to care for a silent child - but eerie lullabies, strange dolls and a ghostly whistling hint at dark secrets. Ideal for readers drawn to atmospheric, haunting horror.
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Why we chose this book
We found The Whistling quietly chilling and deeply atmospheric. It is a gothic story that relies on mood, loss, and suggestion, and it stays with you long after the final page.
Our summary description
As Independent Scottish booksellers, we write all of our descriptions personally, we hope you enjoy this one.
Elspeth accepts a post on a remote Scottish island believing the isolation will offer calm and purpose. Instead, she steps into a house heavy with silence and unease. The child she is meant to care for has not spoken in months, and no one is willing to explain why.
In The Whistling, the strangeness deepens with each passing night. Soft songs echo through empty corridors, dolls appear where no one has been, and the sound that drifts in on the wind may not be the storm at all. Elspeth begins to sense that the house is holding its breath, waiting for something to be acknowledged.
As questions surface about the death of Mary’s twin and the sudden disappearance of the previous nanny, the island’s beauty takes on a more threatening edge. Cut off from the mainland and from certainty, Elspeth must decide whether the truth will free the child in her care or place them both in danger. Quietly terrifying and steeped in atmosphere, The Whistling is a ghost story shaped by isolation, grief, and things left unsaid.
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