Night Babies

The haunting new folk horror novel from Lucie McKnight Hardy Astrid Aspden is a young and talented artist who has just secured her first solo exhibition. But in the weeks leading up to the exhibition her house is flooded and her paintings damaged. Overcome with despair and not knowing what to do, Astrid is thrown a lifeline by her best friend Flora who invites her to stay at a chapel she and her partner are renovating in the Brecon Beacons.

While staying there Astrid learns about the unsettling history of the chapel and what lies beneath the nearby reservoir. Gradually, Astrid notices strange goings-on in the chapel: handprints on her paintings, shadowy figures in the gloaming, and voice whispering in the night. All the while things become tense between Astrid and Flora as sour memories flare up and deep wounds are laid bare.

Whether it is the past, the otherworldly, or the truth - they all haunt this menacing and claustrophobic novel.