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    Bodies of Water

    By V.H. Leslie

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    Shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2017 British Fantasy Awards

    Den of Geek Top Books of 2016

    Ginger Nuts of Horror Top 20 Books of 2016

    After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium.

    Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments and Kirsten moves in, fresh from a break up and eager for the restorative calm of the Thames. But her archivist neighbour, Manon, fills her head with the river’s murky past and with those men of science and art who were obsessed with the drowned women who were washed up on its banks.

    As Kirsten learns more about Wakewater’s secrets, she becomes haunted by a solitary figure in the river and increasingly desperate to understand what the water wants from her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSalt
    Release dateMay 15, 2016
    ISBN9781784630720
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    V.H. Leslie

    V. H. Leslie’s stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Weird Fiction Review and Strange Tales IV. She has also had fiction and non-fiction published in Shadows and Tall Trees and writes a monthly column for This is Horror. Her story ‘Namesake’ was recently selected for Best British Horror and 2013 also saw her win a Hawthornden Fellowship and the Lightship First Chapter Prize.

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      This was weird I don't usually read horror or historical fiction but I think I'm going to now ♥️