The Dead of Winter is a Victorian-set, Gothic chiller. It tells the story of Michael Vyner, who, on the death of his mother, is taken to stay with his strange and tormented guardian at Hawton Mere, a moated manor house in the frozen flatlands of East Anglia – a house infested with mysteries and madness…
Deliciously creepy – Daily Mail
Beautifully paced novella with a sting in its tail – the Times
Shortlisted for the Leads Book Award 2011 and the Salford Children’s Book Award 20122 and long listed for the Carnegie Medal 2012 and the UKLA Book Award
The Dead of Winter is published by Bloomsbury
Chris Priestley 