Good evening!

Happy Wednesday, halfway through the week, whoo! Welcome to a new Waiting on Wednesday!

And today’s chosen book is Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce. The book is technically out, but I just haven’t been able to get it as it is just a bit too expensive (Amazon lists it at 33 euro, Libristo at 24 euro). Hopefully the price goes down a bit more because this book sounds so good.

😍 It gives all the vibes of a cult.
😍 Remote village let’s go!
😍 What are those ways they are dealing with things, omg??
😍 Is it witches or something else entirely, I need to know!
😍 What is happening to Alice??

And that cover is just terrifying. I didn’t even notice it at first, but there is someone looking through those slats. NOPE NOPE NOPE BYE!

Newly minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain and anxiously contemplates her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago.

Then she meets journalist Sam Hunter at the grief group one day, and he has a proposition for her: Thirteen-year-old Alice Webber claims a witch is haunting her. Living with her family in the remote village of Banathel, Alice finds her symptoms are getting increasingly disturbing. Taking this job will give Mina some experience and much-needed money; Sam will get the scoop of a lifetime; and Alice will get better—Mina is sure of it.

But instead of improving, Alice’s behavior becomes inexplicable and intense. The town of Banathel has a deep history of superstition and witchcraft. They believe there is evil in the world. They believe there are ways of…dealing with it. And they don’t expect outsiders to understand.