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The Midnight Hour

Eve Chase author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:27th Jun '24

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Readthe new novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage


‘Mesmerising - a book you want to race back to’ Lisa Jewell, Sunday Times bestselling author of None of This Is True

'A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets. The perfect summer read’ Kate Morton, bestselling author of Homecoming

'A gripping tale of family secrets' Woman's Own

'Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Just Another Missing Person

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Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return . . .

With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of antiques and shadowy figures. There she befriends someone else living on their wits. But can he help solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance?

Twenty-one years later, in a Parisian apartment, Maggie’s phone rings and her hard-won grown-up life shatters. While in London, the new owner of the Parker’s old house is excavating the basement, unaware of what might lie beneath.

Sweeping from bustling London streets, the boulevards of Paris to an old English country house, The Midnight Hour is a thrilling, richly woven story about a golden family with a hidden past – and a woman trying to turn back the hands of time before it’s too late.

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Her best yet! Beautifully written with characters that jumped off the page and a clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word' Claire Douglas, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wrong Sisters

'A novel to immerse yourself in
: lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping . . . a true treat' Sarah Vaughan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal

Praise for Eve Chase:

'Atmospheric' Jane Fallon

'Utterly intoxicating' Veronica Henry

'Evocative' Karen Swan

'Page-turning' Katie Fforde

'Kept me absolutely gripped' Rosie Walsh

'Stunning' Catherine Cooper

Mesmerising - a book you want to race back to -- Lisa Jewell
I’m always so excited for a new Eve Chase book and The Midnight Hour is her best yet! Beautifully written with characters that jumped off the page and a clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word -- Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared
Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master -- Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Just Another Missing Person
Beautifully written and totally compelling * Fabulous *
An Eve Chase novel is always a sumptuous treat, and The Midnight Hour is perhaps her best yet. Exquisitely written, it’s immersive, propulsive and as intricately constructed as the antique clocks which herald each lonely midnight hour. As ever, it’s her characterisation that stands out, and her depiction of the joy and precariousness of first love, enjoyed by Maggie and Wolf. With whispers of One Day, and a story reaching back into nineties Notting Hill and Paris, this is a novel to immerse yourself in this summer: lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping, with a dark undercurrent, but ultimately redemptive and hopeful. A true treat of a book -- Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal
A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets — the perfect summer read -- Kate Morton
A gripping tale of family secrets * Woman's Own *
I loved The Midnight Hour, a gripping, beautifully written novel that plunges you into the lives of siblings, Maggie and Kit, and the mysterious past that looks like it's about to catch up with them. Eve Chase skilfully weaves together two time periods, evoking London and Paris and the world of antiques with such a depth of detail that I felt I was walking the streets alongside the characters. As the tension builds and the secrets they’ve been hiding start to come to light, I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough and felt every bit of Maggie and Kit’s peril. A summer must-read. -- Sarah Pearse, bestselling author of The Sanatorium
Evocative, beautifully written and absolutely gripping, The Midnight Houris sensational - her best yet -- Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call
Eve Chase is at the top of her game in this twisty mystery about broken families, first love, the burdens of fame and secrets never to be told. Zipping between nineties Notting Hill and Paris, a dark truth is teased out of a tangle of friendships and relationships, woven together in Chase’s exquisite prose. I was up all night reading -- Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Disobedient

ISBN: 9780241633915

Dimensions: 223mm x 142mm x 37mm

Weight: 496g

400 pages