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The North Wing at Ashcombe Manor - A Taut, Elegant Psychological Thriller about Secrets Kept Behind Closed Doors - and the Price of Uncovering Them
After a painful divorce and a life that no longer feels her own, Alicia Fairburn accepts an unusual position as caretaker in a remote Sussex estate.
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About The North Wing at Ashcombe Manor - A Taut, Elegant Psychological Thriller about Secrets Kept Behind Closed Doors - and the Price of Uncovering Them
After a painful divorce and a life that no longer feels her own, Alicia Fairburn accepts an unusual position as caretaker in a remote Sussex estate. Ashcombe Manor is meant to offer peace - silence, solitude, a chance to begin again. But the silence there has weight. The manor hums with absence: locked rooms, faint voices through the walls, a history nobody speaks of. When Alicia discovers a child's diary, a series of old letters and secret files hidden in the north wing, the story of the Harrington family begins to unravel - a mother who vanished, a son who was never buried and an estate manager whose loyalty hides something far darker. The deeper she looks, the less certain she becomes of what's alive, what's remembered and what refuses to stay buried.
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