His wife, Erin, has inherited the remote estate of a long-dead Victorian author best known for writing a haunting children’s book titled “In The Night Wood.” Charles persuades her that moving will give them a fresh start, oblivious to Erin’s fear that a fresh start will mean forgetting Lissa altogether.īut Yorkshire bears constant reminders of their dead daughter, from half-glimpsed apparitions to the disappearance of a little girl who looks uncannily like Lissa. After the devastating death of his five-year-old daughter, he hopes that settling into a new project in England will help heal the wounds inflicted on his marriage both by Lissa’s death and by his own earlier infidelity. In The Night Wood by Dale Bailey tells the tale of a grieving biographer who finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject.Ĭharles Hayden left America to escape, or at least forget.
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