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Funny, bleak, delicious, totally terrifying. I could not put it down' Ella Risbridger
'An acerbically witty and haunting state of the times debut' Charlotte Paradise
Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. She's broke, hates her job as PA to the blithely privileged Jeannie, and now a break-up's left her with nowhere to live. It comes as a surprise when Jeannie suggests that Danielle stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where she grew up. They need someone to look after the place anyway.
Danielle enjoys the borrowed luxury at first, but the house is strange, uneasy. The sleep paralysis that started in London has followed her there. Then Jeannie arrives unannounced.
Working for Jeannie, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries between Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into one that is older, stranger and harder to name.
Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle? Lauren Mooney is a writer from the East Midlands. She works in theatre and audio drama, and has co-run Kandinsky Theatre Company since 2015, making award-winning shows across the UK and Europe. She is a graduate of UEA's Creative Writing Prose MA, where she held the David Higham Scholarship. She lives in south London with her husband Stewart and their tortoise, Sacher Tort. Service is her first novel. A sharp, darkly funny ghost story about class and work from a bold new voice in fiction Gothic novel with a modern twist: A contemporary ghost story that blends classic haunted house elements with sharp social commentary on class dynamics and workplace power imbalances. Well connected playwright author: Her recent credits include: Mrs Caliban, My Mother's Funeral: The Show, Top G's Like Me and Kandinsky's Royal Court debut, More Life.
'An acerbically witty and haunting state of the times debut' Charlotte Paradise
Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. She's broke, hates her job as PA to the blithely privileged Jeannie, and now a break-up's left her with nowhere to live. It comes as a surprise when Jeannie suggests that Danielle stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where she grew up. They need someone to look after the place anyway.
Danielle enjoys the borrowed luxury at first, but the house is strange, uneasy. The sleep paralysis that started in London has followed her there. Then Jeannie arrives unannounced.
Working for Jeannie, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries between Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into one that is older, stranger and harder to name.
Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle? Lauren Mooney is a writer from the East Midlands. She works in theatre and audio drama, and has co-run Kandinsky Theatre Company since 2015, making award-winning shows across the UK and Europe. She is a graduate of UEA's Creative Writing Prose MA, where she held the David Higham Scholarship. She lives in south London with her husband Stewart and their tortoise, Sacher Tort. Service is her first novel. A sharp, darkly funny ghost story about class and work from a bold new voice in fiction Gothic novel with a modern twist: A contemporary ghost story that blends classic haunted house elements with sharp social commentary on class dynamics and workplace power imbalances. Well connected playwright author: Her recent credits include: Mrs Caliban, My Mother's Funeral: The Show, Top G's Like Me and Kandinsky's Royal Court debut, More Life.