Girl in the Walls – A thrilling fiction debut, the Gothic novel of 2021 (Hardback)

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Girl in the Walls unfolds inside a house that remembers everything. Elise knows it intimately, every creaking board and narrow space where a body can fold itself away. She has learned how to live between rooms, how to remain unseen. This is the home her parents gave her, and leaving has never felt like an option.

For Eddie, the house is ordinary, if uneasy. He is growing older, learning to dismiss the half glimpsed figure at the edge of his vision. A girl in the walls belongs to childhood, to fear, to imagination. Or so he tells himself. When his older brother begins to sense her presence too, doubt settles in. Something is watching. Something has always been there.

The novel moves quietly but relentlessly, exploring what it means to be hidden and what it costs to stay. Girl in the Walls is steeped in domestic unease, where protection and imprisonment blur, and where forcing something out may open the door to far worse things waiting to get in.