Segtnan, Linda – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:25:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Segtnan, Linda – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The eighth house https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-eighth-house/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=45344 ‘This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it’ — Daisy Johnson – author of Everything Under

In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl’s face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind.

Birgitta Sivander was brutally murdered one night in May 1948. The culprit was never found. Linda feels a deep connection to Birgitta, and in the months that follow she compulsively researches the case.

Meanwhile, a life is taking root inside Linda; she is to have a daughter of her own. As she grapples with the wonder and anxiety of motherhood, she gradually pieces together Birgitta’s story, closing in on the possible killer.

Driven to redeem a lost child, Linda must find a way to lay Birgitta to rest. Moving and unputdownable, The Eighth House is a shattering examination of why cycles of violence persist, and an invocation of the hope that new life brings.

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