# The Shadow Year

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- Book: [The Shadow Year](https://www.bookquiver.com/hannah-richell/the-shadow-year) ([The Shadow Year.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hannah-richell/the-shadow-year.md))
- Authors: [Hannah Richell](https://www.bookquiver.com/hannah-richell), [Anna Bentinck](https://www.bookquiver.com/anna-margot)
- Publisher: Orion
- ISBN: 978-14-0912-795-6
- Published: 2013-09-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A spellbinding tale of grief, jealousy and betrayal, from the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club selected SECRETS OF THE TIDES. 1980. On a hot summer's day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions begin to rise... Three decades later, Lila arrives at the remote cottage. Bruised from a tragic accident and with her marriage in crisis, she finds renovating the tumbledown house gives her a renewed sense of purpose. But why did the cottage's previous inhabitants leave their belongings behind? And why can't she shake the feeling that someone is watching her?