Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her London family's country estate where no two clocks read the same. Summers there are perfect, timeless. Not much ever happens. Until, one stormy evening in 1968, it does. The idyllic world of the four Alton children is shattered. Fiercely bonded by the tragic events, they grow up fast. But when a glamorous stranger arrives, these loyalties are tested. Forbidden passions simmer. And another catastrophe looms...

Decades later, Lorna and her fiancé wind their way through the countryside searching for a wedding venue. Lorna is drawn to a beautiful, crumbling old house she hazily remembers from her childhood, feeling a bond she does not understand. When she finds a disturbing message carved into an old oak tree by one of the Alton children, she begins to realize that Black Rabbit Hall's secret history is as dark and tangled as its woods, and that, much like her own past, it must be brought into the light.

A thrilling spiral into the hearts of two women separated by decades, but inescapably linked by Black Rabbit Hall. A story of forgotten childhood and broken dreams, secrets and heartache, and the strength of a family's love.

'Black Rabbit Hall completely swept me away, a glorious, beautifully written fairy tale for grownups. I absolutely loved it.' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Girls, The House We Grew Up In

'A deliciously intriguing novel whose rich sense of time and place bear more than a few echoes of du Maurier's best.' Alex Marwood, Edgar Award-winning author of The Wicked Girls

'Expertly crafted, dark, beautiful and utterly enthralling.' Rowan Coleman, bestselling author of The Memory Book and We Are All Made Of Stars.

'A seductive wonder of a novel; with echoes of Daphne Du Maurier and Dodie Smith, it pulls you irresistibly into its world where nothing is quite as it first appears.' Elizabeth Fremantle, bestselling author of Queen's Gambit and Sisters of Treason

'A sheer delight. It has everything: a glorious setting, characters to fall in love with, secrets galore and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the very last page. Wonderful.' Veronica Henry Sunday Times bestselling author of A Night On The Orient Express

'A stunning new writer has arrived - gripping and heart rending, this novel is full of original characters which don't let you forget them.' Katie Fforde, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Vintage Wedding and many others

'Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase is the spellbinding, lusciously-written story of two families twined together across the span of time, trapped in limbo in a magical, sea-swept Cornwall house with secrets as deep as its Normandy roots.' Carla Buckley, author of The Things That Keep Us Here

'If Daphne Du Maurier and Ruth Rendell in Barbara Vine mode had been able to collaborate, they might have come up with something like Black Rabbit Hall: Rebecca meets A Fatal Inversion, so to speak. But Eve Chase is very much her own novelist, as fascinated by the varieties of love and affection that hold families together as by the forces that can tear them apart. A remarkable debut from an exceptionally talented and accomplished author.' John Harwood, author of The Ghost Writer