The Haunting of Las Lagrimas

By: W.M. Cleese

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Paperback | 22 February 2022

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Wakenhyrst meets du Maurier in South America, based on the author's time spent living in Brazil. Las Lágrimas takes the classic trope of a rattling English country house and transposes it to the wilds of Buenos Aires, for a fresh, updated take on the genre.

Argentina, winter 1913.

Ursula Kelp, a young English gardener, travels to Buenos Aires to take up the role of head gardener at a long-abandoned estate.

Ursula is warned by the locals that the estate is haunted and soon she believes that her loneliness is making her imagine things – the sound of footsteps outside her bedroom door, the touch of hands on her shoulders when there’s no one there…

About the Author

W.M. Cleese is the pen name of a bestselling thriller writer. He studied literature at London University before moving to Brazil from where he travelled widely across South America, including Argentina. At an estancia in the Pampas he was told a curious tale about the planting of a forest that he never forgot and which became the basis for. He currently lives in rural East Anglia, near Anningley Hall, setting of 'The Mezzotint', his favourite M.R. James ghost story.

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