Unquiet – An intrepid young woman journeys across Victorian London (Paperback)

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London, 1893. Judith’s life has narrowed to a single house and its lingering presences. She passes her days in study and ritual, watched over by a maid whose devotion feels increasingly uncanny. Her family is absent, her grief contained, and the memory of her brother in law’s death kept carefully at bay.

In Unquiet, that fragile order fractures when Sam returns. Presumed drowned a year earlier, he appears one frozen evening with no memory of what happened to him or where he has been. His survival raises more questions than relief, and Judith’s search for answers pulls her beyond the familiar streets of London into darker territory.

The novel moves with measured unease, attentive to atmosphere and restraint. It lingers on loss, repression, and the way belief can bend under pressure. Unquiet is less concerned with shock than with accumulation, allowing doubt to settle slowly, and asking what it means when the dead refuse to stay gone.