Sugar Hall

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Sugar Hall By Tiffany Murray is set in an old Victorian manor, where a dark secret dwells on the grounds and Lilia and her children must confront history.

What We Say: "When Lilia Sugar and her two children, Saskia and Dieter, come to live in Sugar Hall, Dieter falls under the spell of a strange boy with a silver collar around his neck. The nameless boy becomes more and more menacing as their friendship develops and a sense of dread builds. A classic ghost story set in a crumbling house on the Welsh borders, Sugar Hall – built from a fortune derived from slavery - subtly conjures the horrors of the Caribbean sugar plantations, allowing this subplot to lurk in the shadows. Oh, and you will never look at moths in the same light again" – Maria Padget

What They Say:  “Sugar Hall is a dazzlingly clever, superbly crafted book, demonstrating Murray’s dexterity as a storyteller; it is a classic ghost story furnished with a modern, stylish interior. What emerges is an exploration into our commonly held ideas of what a ghost is”— Wales Art Review

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Maria Padget is Service95 Book Club Director