The novella concerns two women connected by the notorious Gosforth Massacre of 1917, a murder case famous among true-crime fans and internet sleuths. The two women strike up an email conversation and begin an uneasy investigation into their mutual ancestor, Hattie Soak, who fled the scene of the crime. The Night Visitors explores ghosts, obsession and inherited evil. ln this novella, the technology that connects us becomes the conduit of un-expiated evil in a story told entirely via an exchange of emails.
Author
Jenn Ashworth is an English writer. She was born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire. She has graduated from Cambridge University and the Manchester Centre for New Writing. In March 2011 she was featured as one of the BBC Culture Show's Best 12 New Novelists. She previously worked as a librarian in a men's prison. She founded the Preston Writers Network, later renamed as the Central Lancs Writing Hub, and worked as its coordinator until it closed in January 2010. She has also taught creative writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, won a Betty Trask Award in 2010. An extract from an earlier novel, lost as a result of a computer theft in 2004, was the winner of the 2003 Quiller-Couch Prize for Creative Writing at Cambridge University.
