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The Coffin Path: 'The perfect ghost story' Hardcover – 13 February 2018

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The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements is an eerie and compelling seventeenth-century ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors. For fans of Michelle Paver, Helen Dunmore and Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, this gothic tale will weave its way into your imagination and chill you to the bone.

'The perfect ghost story' - Manda Scott

'Anyone who loves Wuthering Heights will adore this' - Rory Clements

Maybe you've heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there's something up here, something evil.

Mercy Booth isn't afraid. The moors and Scarcross are her home and lifeblood. But, beneath her certainty, small things are beginning to trouble her. Three ancient coins missing from her father's study, the shadowy figure out by the gatepost, an unshakeable sense that someone is watching.

When a stranger appears seeking work, Mercy reluctantly takes him in. As their stories entwine, this man will change everything. She just can't see it yet.

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Publisher : Headline Review; 1st edition (13 February 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1472204271
ISBN-13 : 978-1472204271
Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.6 x 23.6 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 79,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1,026 in Ghost Stories
- 19,214 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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The perfect ghost story

There are echoes here of Daphne du Maurier - The Times on THE SILVERED HEART

Atmospheric and gripping... right up to the last heart-breaking moment

Impressive and inspirational... an original and entertaining story

The vibrant new voice of historical fiction

About the Author

Katherine Clements is a critically acclaimed novelist, self-confessed costume drama addict and current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Manchester. She is editor of Historia, the online magazine of the Historical Writers' Association, and is a member of the HWA committee.

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Louise Byrne

mostly good

Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2020

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Great characters and connecting to the setting. Was really enjoying till close to the end. Found the ending less well thought out than I'd expected and employed some cliches I'd seen coming but hoped wouldn't be used. Overall good writing but the end didn't work in my opinion.

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Green Goddess

If you're looking to be scared, look elsewhere.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2019

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The title indicates that it's 'The perfect ghost story' but apart from a mysterious figure which lurks outside and a bit of infantile poltergeist activity there was absolutely nothing spooky about this novel. I was really looking forward to reading it but was left feeling disappointed and regretting the 5hours that I had invested in it.
Every time there was a hint of something supernatural the story quickly reverted back to being about sheep farming. There were plenty of missed opportunities to create a truly terrifying story but Clements just ignored them all.
If you want to know how difficult sheep farming was in the 1600s then this is the book for you, if you want a ghost story look elsewhere.

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TrickstersDaughter

Absolutely does not live up to its hype. Boring and not a great ghost story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2019

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I’m really sorry to say but the hype and the wonderous reviews really didn’t live up to this book.
I’m an avid reader and listener and usually have one paperback/hardback on the go with another one in audible to keep me occupied while I’m doing household tasks. This was my paperback indulgence to sit and read with a glass of wine in the evening and I was hoping for something along the lines of The Silent Companions.... I was to have my hopes dashed.
I have to agree with a couple of other 1&2 star reviews here, this was no perfect ghost story! There was the promise of something sinister lurking but apart from the promise, nothing until I suppose the very last line and even that was ambiguous.
The characters weren’t likeable either with the exception of some sideline characters I didn’t feel much empathy with any of them only frustration at the eye rolling stubborness you find in books of this type.
Another reviewer had put this well when they said it was a book about sheep farming in the 1600’s. Dull, depressing and lacking any real suspense or horror.
As a person who has farmed sheep myself I didn’t even enjoy it from that perspective! And while I may be a West Country girl, I have visited and spent a lot of time in Yorkshire and although it doesn’t have the beauty for me that Devon and Cornwall do, if you were to read this you’d never want to visit there, it’s painted as perhaps the most godforsken place on earth, and actually, the Yorkshire moors are beautiful and enchanting rather than dark and unappealing.
I read a lot of historical fiction and I’m a huge fan of Toby Clements and Karen Maitland for example -
And they really are historical fiction at their best. This just wasn’t. Sorry.

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Marianded

Good read, recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2018

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This was a good, atmospheric read with much to enjoy.
There are some really visceral descriptions regarding sheep farming and I loved the descriptions of the eerie moors. This was the best kind of ghost story where the author allows the reader's imagination to do some work.
There is quite a twist towards the end and on the strength of this work I will certainly read the author's previous books.

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immersive and convincing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2018

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I stumbled across this book in an online review so Katherine Clements is a new author to me. I was immediately drawn to the writing style, the way she made me feel I was part of the bleak environment, part of the narrative. The characters are dark, the setting is turbulent and troubled, and rather than just reading this book, I experienced it. I could feel the rain on my face, the snow sliding into my boots and I shared the nauseating fear that is the root of the story. Not a jolly tale but wow, what a journey. On reaching the end, I immediately downloaded another to read and, so far, it is just as good.

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E.A. COLE

Not quite 'The perfect ghost story' but not far off the mark.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2018

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The author did a brilliant job. She had me guessing to the very end. And the ending was completely in line with the rest of the book. No fudge. No red herrings. It made perfect sense.
The plot kept up a juggenaut pace that crushed the book's characters beneath it. All the characters from Mercy, who might be called the book's heroine, to her ailing father and old Agnes their housekeeper, to the mysterious Ellis Ferreby are all well rounded. Add to that a remote farmhouse that has seen better days and a serious of unsettling events it makes for an excellent read.
As other reviewers have noted the books supernatural element is very much in keeping with Susan Hill, and in a way M R James. Old fashioned maybe, but it fits the historical setting, post English Civil War, very well.

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