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Idle grounds : a novel / Krystelle Bamford.
"On a New England morning in the late 1980s, a group of young cousins wander deep into the woods on their family's property, drawn in by uncanny visions and the disappearance of one of their own-but the farther they go, the stranger their surroundings become"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668070451 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 192 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2025.
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| Subject: | Cousins > Fiction. Missing children > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Bamfo | 31681010406726 | FICTION | Available | - |
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A group of cousins searching for a missing child during a family gathering wander deeper into haunted woods, uncovering unsettling family secrets that challenge everything they know about their past, identity and inheritance. - Simon and Schuster
One morning in the late 1980s, a group of young cousins wander deep into the woods on their familyâs property, drawn in by uncanny visions and the disappearance of one of their ownâfinding, in this thrilling New England gothic, that the farther they go, the stranger their surroundings become.
Lingering at the edge of a family party, a troop of cousins loses track of the youngest child among them. With their parents preoccupied with bickering about decades-old crises, the children decide they must set out to investigate themselvesâto the rickety chicken coop, the barn and its two troublesome horses, and into the woods that once comprised their late grandmotherâs property. The more the children search, and the deeper they walk, the more threatening the woods become and the more lost they are, caught between their auntâs home in the present day, their parentsâ childhood home just through the trees, and the memory of the house their grandmother grew up in. Soon, what began as a quest for answers gives way to a journey that undermines everything theyâve been told about who they are, where they came from, and what they deserve.
Disquieting and delightful, Idle Grounds is a rich exploration of the interior lives of children and a gripping meditation on birthright, decline, and weight of family history. A fable of the distortions of privilege and the impossibility of keeping secrets hidden, this is a novel about straying from homeâonly to come back unraveled, unsettled, and irrevocably changed.
