Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough7/8/2023 Lindsey Barraclough's first novel is written with a style and intelligence that would put many an adult thriller to shame John Millen, Young Postīarraclough's debut, which is based on a centuries-old British ballad, is a ghost story through and through, chock-full of mysterious apparitions, strange voices, cryptic warnings, and townsfolk who chorus beware Publishers Weeklyīarraclough's depiction of Bryers Guerdon, a village half-immersed in mist-clad marshes, is as vivid as it is frightening its silent and close-lipped inhabitants are reminiscent of those of Crythin Gifford in Susan Hill's The Woman in Black. A fabulous revisiting of the hoariest of old chestnuts Daily TelegraphĪ real stunner of a debut: Long Lankin is a wonderful, imaginative slow burner of a thriller.
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