Fray: The haunting and mysterious new literary suspense novel of 2023, for fans of bestsellers THE LONEY and PINE

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Dark and atmospheric, Fray is chilling and very original. I couldn't put it down.' - Simon McCleave This book is advertised as “a missing person mystery like no other.” No. No, it’s not. Stop lying. READBAIT!!! 😡 At its heart, Fray is a book about love and self-acceptance, while also taking the reader on a wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands.” But, and this is crucial, this book isn’t really about me – it’s about the mental health experiences we all face, and the ways we may struggle to understand or communicate these.

An abandoned cottage in the remote wilderness, filled with thousands of confusing, terrifying handwritten notes. A book by a keen runner who had long wanted to write about his mental health experiences but struggled to find a way to do so until he was caught in a mountainside storm will go on sale on Thursday.Breathing in enough to be given life, softening the pain a little, finding some colour in all the grinding grey. Remembering that something else was possible, that it could change. That was all I could hold on to, never daring to consider that it actually would change. That I would.

HarperNorth has pre-empted the “spine-tingling” début novel by Chris Carse Wilson, communications manager at V&A Dundee.

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A truly unique book, like nothing I've ever read before ... a thoughtful and beautifully written story, which is simultaneously gripping. This is a must-read.' ????? The author said: “My mental health challenges are inextricably linked to being autistic and how I experience the world, which for 40 years of my life I never understood. Author Chris Carse Wilson, whose book Fray goes on sale on Thursday (Jane Barlow/PA)