January 2025 and Midnattshuset is here!
The Midnight House has been translated into Norwegian 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴! Hurra!
This is super special to me because my favourite place in the world is our rickety old hytte in the northern Norwegian fjords, a couple of hundred kilometres above the Arctic Circle. It’s off the beaten track (two bus rides, a ferry, then a hike) and occasionally I stay alone, in the silence, a fox, ermine, and Eliza the elk my only companions. I light the fire, collect water from the well, catch fish for dinner and read by candlelight.
En fengslende historie om hemmeligheter, løgner og fortidens spøkelser som har tatt England med storm. Dette er medrivende historisk feelgood - perfekt for lesere av Lucinda Riley og Santa Montefiore!
Mennesker forsvinner. Hemmeligheter forblir ...
I 1940 forsvinner lady Charlotte Rathmore sporløst ved innsjøen til Blackwater Hall, og antas å være død. Søsteren, Nancy, mottar kort tid etter dødsfallet et brev som inneholder en hemmelighet forandrer livet hennes for alltid.
År senere, i 1958, flytter Nancys datter Hattie inn i det mystiske herskapshuset, og hun oppdager snart flere urovekkende sannheter fra Blackwater Hall.
I 2019 snubler den vanærede journalisten Ellie over et falmet brev fra Blackwater som kobler fortid og nåtid ¿ og hun avslører et flere tiår gammelt mysterium som kan gi svar på hva som egentlig skjedde med Charlotte ...
Welcome to my author website! If, like me, you've always adored novels with interweaving timelines, where stories from the past tie with those in the present, then you've come to the right place!
The inspiration for my first novel, The Midnight House, appeared in the rafters of our Irish home, a two-hundred-year-old stone building perched on the edge of the Atlantic. Hidden there was a message, scratched into wood: 'When this comes down, pray for me. Tim O’Shea 1911'. As I held that piece of timber in my hands, dust clinging to my paint-stained clothes, I was humbled that a person’s fingerprint could transcend time, and I wanted to capture that feeling of discovery on the page. The Midnight House was a Richard & Judy book club pick and has sold over 160,000 copies. During 2023, it was in the UK Kindle Top 50 for more than five months, and finished at #5 on the Bookseller Heatseekers Chart.
My second novel, The Moon Gate, is set across three locations I love: Tasmania (my home state), London (where we rented a houseboat for many years) and County Kerry, Ireland (where I now live with my family). Each of these places is special to me and I hope you’ll feel you’re entering the temperate rainforest with Grace, opening the door to Towerhurst with Willow, and walking through London’s layered history with Libby! I've received countless messages about The Moon Gate, filled with reader's memories of west coast Tasmania, and many have been inspired to pick up Banjo Paterson's works again (his poetry weaves the narratives together).
I’m also a geologist who explores the world’s remote places. I've worked on five continents, and spend months at a time out in the wilds. It's an amazing job, and writing novels provides a similar sense of wonder and discovery, though the warm office, fresh food and a shower in the evening make the conditions rather more comfortable. Being an author is also the perfect excuse to regularly curl up by a fire with a great book (which I can always say is research). I treasure my reading time, and I know you do too, so thank you for taking a chance on my books.
Come over to Instagram (@amandageard) where I share plenty of photos of the wild settings in THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE and THE MOON GATE … and my third book, set in Norway - more on that soon. You can also find me on Facebook (@amandageardauthor). I love hearing from readers, so please get in touch!
Amanda Geard
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A lost letter. A long-kept secret. A disappearance begging to be solved.
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A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime mystery buried forever.
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New Editions
The Moon Gate and The Midnight House are available in hardback, paperback, ebook and audio.
International rights have been acquired in Germany, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, and The Czech Republic.
For translation rights, please contact enquiries@hachette.co.uk
The Midnight House - English Hardback
The Midnight House - English Paperback
The Midnight House - Danish
The Midnight House - Czech
The Midnight House - German
The Moon Gate - English Hardback
The Moon Gate - English Paperback
The Moon Gate - Czech
Midnattshuset by Amanda Geard
Praise for The Midnight House
“A wonderful tale of family secrets. Compelling, intriguing, and brimming with lush historical detail.”
— HAZEL GAYNOR, NYT bestselling author of The Bird in the Bamboo Cage
“An intriguing multi-layered mystery spanning generations, evocative and beautifully written.”
— TRACY REES, Richard & Judy winner and author of The Hourglass
“Amanda Geard is a warm and lively new voice and has a wonderful storytelling talent. I loved The Midnight House.”
— RACHEL HORE, author of bestselling Richard & Judy Bookclub Last Letter Home and A Beautiful Spy
“I was pulled in from page one. It's beautiful and I love it.”
— LIZ FENWICK, “the queen of the contemporary Cornish novel”
“I really, really loved it. Written in that old-school, descriptively beautiful way I just love and adore. Totally atmospheric and wonderfully escapist.”
— LORNA COOK, USA Today bestselling author of The Girl from the Island
“With its gorgeous setting, wonderful characters, & secrets that kept me glued to the pages, it's a beauty - a hit for 2022!”
— JENNY ASHCROFT, author of Under the Golden Sun and Meet Me in Bombay
“Moving and intriguing … A lovely book.”
— SINÉAD MORIARTY, Bestselling Irish author and Easons Ambassador
“An intriguing story with wonderful characters in a beautiful setting. I loved it.”
— RACHAEL ENGLISH, author of the #1 bestseller ‘The Letter Home’
I also run the Kerry Creators Q&A series, showcasing Ireland’s best from the southwest and bringing you insights from County Kerry’s prominent authors and illustrators.
Join me (an Australian who calls Kerry home) as I delve into fellow creators’ favourite places, foods, and – most importantly – discovers who’d they share a drink with, Crean or Keane?
