Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John’s. With both parents now dead, the siblings must decide what to do with the old house they’ve inherited. Despite their individual loneliness, neither is willing to change or cede to the other’s intentions. As the sisters discover the house’s dark secrets, the spirits of the past awaken, and strange events envelop them. source
Scene
St. John's Harbour (Harbourside Park)
“The fog often fell upon St. John's harbour like a wolf that preyed upon a lamb — stealthy, sudden, and inescapable.”
A sentence Atlantic Books Today's reviewer Allison Lawlor cited as an example of Collins's tight, controlled prose. The fog and the harbour are recurring presences in the world of the Hush sisters.
Gerard Collins, The Hush Sisters (Breakwater Books, 2020). Quoted in Allison Lawlor's review for Atlantic Books Today (Issue 92). — source
Places
- Set at333 Forest Road↗
The novel's primary anchor is the fictional 333 Forest Road manor. Source: Allison Lawlor review in Atlantic Books Today No. 92 (Fall 2020); independently confirmed by The Fiddlehead.
Breakwater Books product page for The Hush Sisters: 'a peculiar manor in downtown St. John's.' — source
