Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
<p><b>Four brand-new novellas by the #1 <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling, National Book Award-winning</b><b> “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</b></p><p>An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she’s pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor’s voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives.</p> In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of <i>We Were the Mulvaneys</i> and <i>Blonde</i> writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for “great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers” (<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i>).