PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Christopher Ransom was born and went to university in Colorado, but moved to New York and then LA with his wife to pursue various careers such as selling ads for media magazines and screenwriting. They then bought a 140-year-old birthing house in Wisconsin, where he wrote this, his first novel.
This first book is genuinely creepy and compelling. - Sunday Telegraph This is a very good horror novel - Sydney Morning Herald Refreshingly original premise this spookily atmospheric spine-tingler certainly evokes the likes of The Shining. - Adelaide Advertiser In a word: spine-tingling - Townsville Bulletin If The Birthing House had just been a biting and well-written novel about a contemporary marriage, that would have been enough to make it worth your time. If it had just been the kind of genuinely scary story that makes little hairs stand up on the back of your neck, that would have been sufficient as well. But what's remarkable is that it manages to have the best of both genres, without sacrificing thrills for insight. This is a rare thing: a ghost story with class. Read it. - Peter Blauner
