The Waters Can Hear You

The Waters Can Hear You
By Robin Wickens

In Wrenmere, people know better than to speak secrets near water.

Elspeth Vale thought she had escaped the damp, watchful village of her childhood. But when her formidable grandmother dies during a rainstorm, Elspeth returns to inherit an old stone cottage, a blue box of notebooks, and a warning painted above the stove:

Never tell the water what you fear.

Then the taps begin to whisper.

The river runs backwards. The well repeats old secrets. A buried flood bell rings beneath the church font. A child’s voice rises from the water, asking for the truth Wrenmere has hidden since 1952.

But the village’s secrets run deeper than one drowning.

They reach beneath the bridge, into the old spring, through the drowned orchard, past the rain cupboard, and back to the first child whose name was turned into debt.

Atmospheric, witty and emotionally rich, The Waters Can Hear You is a British folklore mystery about rivers, rain, haunted memory, inherited silence, village guilt, stubborn grandmothers, and the dangerous difference between being heard and being kept.

Perfect for readers who enjoy British folklore, supernatural mysteries, haunted villages, ghostly rivers, old wells, buried bells, gothic atmosphere, dry humour and emotionally layered mysteries.

Short Product Hook

The village lied.
The river listened.
Now the water wants every secret counted.