Rhi Axtell – Writer

It’s a quick one today as I rush to write a blog post in between shopping and making a veggie bolognese for my family (in a spooky way? No. They won’t let me put a sheet on my head and cook while cosplaying a ghost because it is a ‘fire hazard’. Boring!)

Anyway, my friend Eluned Gramich is a fantastic writer who has written many fantastic things. One of the fantastic things she has written is the novella Sleep Training – and I know it is a fantastic thing because I read it and it was fantastic, but also it won a novella prize so other people thought it was fantastic too (if my own opinion was not enough to sway you).

Sleep Training is today’s spooky thing, because it is a ghost story. Here is the blurb on the back of the book:

Elin, Mark and baby Padarn move into their first house together – a house bought unusually cheap – as Mark relocates them in order to start a new job. Lonely and trapped in an increasingly volatile and disquieting marriage, Elin’s world begins to unravel in self-doubt and paranoia: is something else visiting her baby at night, keeping him awake? Soon, a series of terrible secrets crawl out from between the cracks.

An unsettling contemporary ghost story by the winner of the Ghastling Novella Prize, this is an extremely tense and haunting tale that promises to have the reader riveted and turning the pages to the very end.

It’s a quick, creepy read. Great for an injection of horror into your week. Plus, fun fact, Eluned wrote this book while looking after her first child who had recently been born at the time, which makes this book even more of a massive achievement. I struggle to write and the only thing in my way is the occasional veggie bolognese.

Support my friend and buy the book here:

See you tomorrow!