When you come home to one life but find yourself in another...
When Persey Delaney returns to Britain after working abroad, everything has changed.
Her mother is newly-divorced and her younger sister Meg is still struggling to recover her confidence after a horrific accident.
Together, they have moved from their long-envied, prime address in Mayfair to a seedy block of flats in Willesden.
Soon Persey lives there, too.
And within weeks of Persey's return home, strange goings-on begin to upset her already unsettling new life.
It seems that Yew Court has become a malevolent witness to secret lives.
The horror begins as the residents are subjected to a series of dreadful events, each getting more and more frightening as the days progress.
The local paper dubs Yew Court the unluckiest block of flats in London, but Persey fears that luck has nothing to do with it.
Dark forces are at work and there's a race against time to prevent a catastrophe...
Toxic tells of how so many lives are woven by Fate into a tapestry of terror in this gripping thriller.
'One of those rare and energetic books you can't put down yet don't want to end' - The Times
'A compelling, dark-hued psychological thriller that eerily captures some of London's more sinister undercurrents and sense of menace' - Guardian
'In her atmospheric novel Thorn, Vena Cork skillfully builds a sinister feeling of menace surrounding her attractive heroine' - Sunday Telegraph
'There's more to this psychological thriller than meets the eye. Look no further for a real sense of menace' - Daily Mirror
'You'll be gripped as this persuasive thriller races to its grisly conclusion' - Marie Claire
'Vena Cork's perceptions of human nature are spot-on and the suspense is tangible when the small malevolent acts turn into something much more evil and sinister... ' Aberdeen Press & Journal
Vena Cork is from Lancashire, but has lived in London all her adult life. She attended Homerton College, Cambridge, where she was a member of Cambridge Footlights. She is married to the art critic Richard Cork and lives in North West London. She is also the author of Thorn and The Art of the Dying.
Genre: Mystery
When Persey Delaney returns to Britain after working abroad, everything has changed.
Her mother is newly-divorced and her younger sister Meg is still struggling to recover her confidence after a horrific accident.
Together, they have moved from their long-envied, prime address in Mayfair to a seedy block of flats in Willesden.
Soon Persey lives there, too.
And within weeks of Persey's return home, strange goings-on begin to upset her already unsettling new life.
It seems that Yew Court has become a malevolent witness to secret lives.
The horror begins as the residents are subjected to a series of dreadful events, each getting more and more frightening as the days progress.
The local paper dubs Yew Court the unluckiest block of flats in London, but Persey fears that luck has nothing to do with it.
Dark forces are at work and there's a race against time to prevent a catastrophe...
Toxic tells of how so many lives are woven by Fate into a tapestry of terror in this gripping thriller.
Praise for Vena Cork:
'One of those rare and energetic books you can't put down yet don't want to end' - The Times
'A compelling, dark-hued psychological thriller that eerily captures some of London's more sinister undercurrents and sense of menace' - Guardian
'In her atmospheric novel Thorn, Vena Cork skillfully builds a sinister feeling of menace surrounding her attractive heroine' - Sunday Telegraph
'There's more to this psychological thriller than meets the eye. Look no further for a real sense of menace' - Daily Mirror
'You'll be gripped as this persuasive thriller races to its grisly conclusion' - Marie Claire
'Vena Cork's perceptions of human nature are spot-on and the suspense is tangible when the small malevolent acts turn into something much more evil and sinister... ' Aberdeen Press & Journal
Vena Cork is from Lancashire, but has lived in London all her adult life. She attended Homerton College, Cambridge, where she was a member of Cambridge Footlights. She is married to the art critic Richard Cork and lives in North West London. She is also the author of Thorn and The Art of the Dying.
Genre: Mystery
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