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Just Like Home

by Sarah Gailey

A home built over buried secrets

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    2023 British Fantasy Award winner for Best Horror Novel

    Winner of the 2023 award for Best Horror Novel.

  • Book club selection

    Belletrist Book Club pick

    Selected as a Belletrist Book Club pick.

  • Editorial selection

    One of Paste’s Best Horror Novels of 2022

    Included among the outlet's Best Horror Novels of 2022.

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A home built over buried secrets

Vera’s return to Crowder House brings family history and a notorious crime into the same space: her father was a serial killer, and bodies were buried beneath the house he built. The present adds another disturbance, as an artist living in the guest house denies leaving notes written in her father’s hand. The house’s foundations link these mysteries, while Vera’s estrangement from her mother and memories of her father shape the story’s central conflict. The publisher presents the novel as a gothic thriller with contemporary fantasy elements, combining a family reckoning with questions about what remains hidden at home.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in gothic thrillers and contemporary fantasy.
  • For readers drawn to stories combining family estrangement with a criminal past.
  • For readers who enjoy mysteries centered on a house and its buried secrets.

Themes

Family estrangementThe legacy of violenceSecrets and memoryHome as a site of unease

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Book overview

A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) - WINNER of the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel - One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Vulture, Paste, NPR, and Teen Vogue) - A Belletrist Book Club pick!

Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of The Haunting of Hill House as well as true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

"Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.

Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren't alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera's childhood for spare parts. He insists that he isn't the one leaving notes around the house in her father's handwriting... but who else could it possibly be?

There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.

Also by Sarah Gailey:
Make Me Better
Spread Me
The Echo Wife
Upright Women Wanted
When We Were Magic
Magic for Liars
American Hippo

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