Review
"The first few chapters are atmospheric, intriguing. They made me want to keep reading. The beautifully observed characters and exotic setting have all the makings of a first class novel." Barbara Erskine. "The promise of the opening chapters is more than well maintained. This novel is a real page-turner. Worthy of comparison with the early John Fowles' 'The Magus' but distinctively Raymond Nickford." Allen Synge. "An atmospheric, vibrant, almost spooky page-turner that might easily become something of a cult." Reay Tannahill.
Product Description
Between flickerings of reality and delusion, Matt's love for his student, Amy, is strained. Could she be one of those always gathering with the hunting knife that has already ended the life of a colleague? Can a paranoid stop himself from destroying she, alone, who might have loved him?
About the Author
Raymond Nickford has been published, apart from his novels, for his searching character studies in stories of psychological suspense as a contributor to USA anthologies including: "Voices of a Hypnotist" published in Gaslight, "Family Tree" in Haunts no.32, "Nanny's Friends" in Not One of Us, "A Musical Calling" in Heliocentric Net. Vol 5. and "The Parchment Recipes" in Chills no.8 British Fantasy Society Magazine. He has taught English in colleges and as a tutor; the years visiting pupils in shacks to mansions, from what he calls "the delightful to the vaguely Little Lord Fauntleroy," in part informed his fourth novel, a psychological suspense thriller - A Child from the Wishing Well, which it is hoped, may also see publication in large print and audio form for libraries which supply fiction to those for whom he has a special sympathy; the visually impaired. Nickford has a degree in Philosophy and Psychology from The University College of North Wales, Bangor, and is working on another psychological suspense "Prey to Her Madonna". His favourite authors range from Hitchcock, through Patricia Highsmith to Ruth Rendell and Henry James.
