Hare House: An Atmospheric Modern-day Tale of Witchcraft – the Perfect Autumn Read

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There was nothing there, I thought. Nothing but the shadows of the trees,my own imagination. It was only when it moved that I could make it out, the silent hare, turning and loping away into the dark.’ Situated in a pretty village on the cusp of the North York Moors National Park, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Ugaz’s case is all too familiar in Peru, where powerful groups regularly use the courts to silence journalists by fabricating criminal allegations against them.’

This is an odd book. I can't say I enjoyed it, but i couldn't put it down - I needed to know the ending. And although it has everything I usual love - Scotland, witchcraft, a gothic house, hares... this left me quite cold. The Travel Chapter Limited, trading as holidaycottages.co.uk | The Travel Chapter Limited is registered in England and Wales. | Registered office Travel Chapter House Gammaton Road Bideford EX39 4DFThe house was completed in 2018 and has westerly views to Cambridge and the surrounding countryside. Hare House is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me, kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become understandable...

First read November 2021; reread December 2022.) This is a book that is perfect to me. Not a book I am trying to claim is objectively perfect, but a book that is perfect to me, that feels precisely calibrated for me. Everything about the story, how it’s told, how it’s written, the strength of the voice, the momentum of the plot... the slow unfolding, the macabre details, the setting, the beautiful writing about landscape, the expression of both freedom and isolation, the ways in which the ending is delicious and unsettling at once. There are moments in this book that comfort and console me, and others that leave me chilled to the bone – not in a ‘spooky’ way, but existentially. Honestly, probably top 10 of all time for me. I am so glad I have it to reread forever. Henry also formed the Protector Lamp and Lighting Company Ltd., a company which is still in business today and makes the miners’ lamps used in the Olympic torch. I wish the witchcraft/gothic-ness had been played up more, because I also feel like Hinchcliffe was desperately trying to write it as a 'could be spooky or could be delusion' type story, and it just left so many unanswered questions, i felt quite unsatisfied by the end.The story is good. It's well paced and just spooky enough. I would have liked to gather more of a connection to our narrator, who we never learned the name of. relieved by the quarter's overseer. (fn. 101) The township had its own overseer by 1743. (fn. 102) It became These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.