about the author

Christine Holt has a BSc Honours degree in Physiotherapy, from the University of Northumbria and a Postgraduate Diploma in Driving Assessments, from Chester University. She has worked for the NHS for nearly thirty years.She lives with her family in Carlisle and enjoys walking in the surrounding fells. 

about the book

Present DayA young couple buy a dilapidated house at auction to get on the property ladder. As derelict as the old, detached villa looks on the outside, the interior is like a time capsule, and other than years of silent neglect, the house has been preserved, waiting for new occupants. As renovations commence, the house begins to reveal secrets to its gruesome past and why it was abandoned nearly two hundred years ago.1844An undertaker and a volunteer nurse at a hospital for contagious diseases become acquainted through the victims of a murderer creating chaos within the medieval walled city of Carlisle. The unlikely couple, a hunchback and a wealthy young lady, learn about each other’s professions, realising the cloak between the living and the dead is a very thin veil. They question why fate has brought them together, yet cruelly keeps them apart. The tangled web of past, present and future interferes in all their lives, yet all they strive for is happiness. Will fate be kind to those who do the wrong things for the right reasons?

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TV Interview for a Nigerian TV Show

I was recently interviewed by Emeka Ozurumba, a Nigerian TV presenter for ‘The Weekend Show’. During the interview, we talked about my book, House of Recovery, and the upcoming edition, House of Asylu ........

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An honour

Rubbing shoulders with Anthony Horowitz in Waterstones, Newcastle upon Tyne.If you are in the mood for a dark and twisted tale, then look no further. House of Recovery will transport you back in time ........

The Study

Welcome to the study at the bottom of my garden. Inspired by the television series ‘Peaky Blinders’, I feel transported back in time when I enter inside and all the worries of the day disappear when I ........

Publication Day

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