Sarah Challis: 3 books

A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend. Onto this scene...

In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a spell of frost or snow so severe that it seems as if spring and summer will never return. This is what country people call a blackthorn winter. For Claudia Barron, the blackthorn winter of that...

Reports of ghostly music playing in the dead of night, apparitions drifting along the tower parapet, a mischievous child ghost stealing keys and an old butler lurking in the shadows . . . they can't all be rumours, can they? Built on the grounds of an old Roman ruin, Livingstone Hall Country House...