Mrs England The award-winning Sunday Times bestseller from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award
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Biographical note
Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, Independent, Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling, her second, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third Mrs England. Mrs England was longlisted for the Portico Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and won the Women's Prize Futures Award. Her latest novel, The Household, was also a Sunday Times bestseller.Halls's terrific third novel is chock full of secrets, deceptions and troubled family histories, with the brooding, blasted landscape of West Yorkshire as the perfect backdrop to this <b>utterly compelling </b>tale. Menacing and marvellously written, this is a <b>hugely accomplished Edwardian chiller</b>.
Daily Mail
Hugely readable with a palpable sense of dread, this is a <b>truly brilliant </b>book.
The Sun
With a desolate setting that <b>shimmers with menace</b>, Stacey Halls' tense novel masterfully tackles issues such as the abuse of power. This <b>enticing and beautifully written</b> story should delight those fans of historical fiction.
Sunday Express
<i>The Familiars </i>author has fast become the queen of historical lit and this new offering, set in 1904, might be <b>her best yet</b>... <b>Evocative and captivating</b>.
Heat Magazine
Halls hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary historical fiction and <b>this feminist gothic thriller is a lovely stealth read, simmering with tension.</b>
Metro
<b>Mesmerising, entrancing</b>, a <b>spellbinding</b> novel of emotion and mystery, a heroine caught in an impossible world of twists, turns and lies. <b>Gripping to the very last page.</b>
Kate Williams
I tingled with suspense, burned with questions and lived Nurse May's story as if it were my own - jumpy and on edge in the menacing atmosphere of Hardcastle House. In precise and evocative prose, Stacey Halls has conjured a devastating, compelling and utterly real world - and I<b> was gripped from start to finish.</b>
Joanna Glen, Costa shortlisted author of The Other Half of Augusta Hope
Halls shows genuine skill in building the sense of menace within the England household and in the unfolding of its secrets.
Sunday Times
Full of gothic menace, this Edwardian mystery is convincing and <b>absolutely enthralling.</b>
Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City
Like a stroll on the sun-flecked Yorkshire Dales, <i>Mrs England</i> is both <b>dazzling and dark</b>, as beautiful as it is disturbing. A <b>captivating</b>, sensuous novel about a grand country estate and a family so full of secrets that a peal of children's laughter, the whispers of a maid or a letter hidden under the mattress may bring it all tumbling down.
Inga Vesper, author of The Long, Long Afternoon
A fresh, original story with Gothic overtones and a quiet but deadly subversion.
Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two Women in Rome
<i>Mrs England</i> is <b>jaw-droppingly brilliant</b>. <b>Exquisitely written, incredibly atmospheric, a masterclass </b>in rising tension. The <b>deliciously addictive </b>love-child of Daphne Du Maurier and Henry James, one of those rare books that you want to re-read immediately.
Liz Hyder
<b>Brilliant. </b>An <b>utterly gripping </b>exploration of female fortitude in adversity, with a propulsive, atmospheric plot. Ruby is a wonderful protagonist.
Caroline Lea
This <b>enthralling</b> read is a <b>powerful</b> examination of an Edwardian marriage, and the underlying currents of control, courage and power.
Woman & Home
Halls' third novel builds its tension slowly and carefully, replete with gothic flourishes and revelling in the Upstairs/Downstairs world of a vanished age.
Bookbrunch
Nobody and nothing is what it seems, including Ruby May who has secrets of her own, in this <b>wonderfully menacing</b> mystery.
Red
Halls certainly knows how to write <b>gripping historical fiction</b>.
Good Housekeeping
<b>Highly atmospheric and tense.</b>
Richard Osman, The Observer
As treacherous and invigorating as the moors. I didn't want it to end.
Laura Purcell