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The uncanny story behind my novel

15 July 2021 By Alexandra Walsh

You might expect a thriller to give you the shivers. But when Alexandra Walsh was writing her latest novel, The Wind Chime, she discovered some parallels between her fictional story and her own family history that were unexpected – even uncanny. The Wind Chime is a timeshift thriller set in the present day and the […]

The Wind Chime by Alexandra Walsh

29 June 2021 By Editor

Windsor, England, 2019, and Amelia Prentice is recovering from the worst two years of her life. First her daughter and then her parents have died, leaving her without any surviving relatives. As she gets ready to put the family home, a vast Victorian house in Windsor, on the market, she fulfils her mother’s last request […]

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