The Curse of Beckett’s Wood

The Curse of Beckett’s Wood

Author: R. E. Witham

ISBN: 9781907340246

Published 25 May 2020

Format: Paperback

Number of pages: 630


Beckett’s Wood is sinister and secret, the kind of place where the curse of past events spread quietly like the brambles in the undergrowth.

In the first part of this gripping, three-part, bestselling novel the unsettling tale of a cyclist’s arrival in a village bordering an eerie wood sets in motion consequences that have far reaching effects on one particular person’s life and, like an anaesthetic, the village devours his will so that the curse can become all consuming.

Seemingly disconnected, part two depicts the life of David Harper as he dares to confront the abuse he receives as a boy at the hand of his mother, the kind of abuse that develops as he reaches puberty. Terrifying dreams misshape his mental health yet more, dreams that have a strange echo of a village far away.

As the reader you are given to know why. You are always one step ahead of him. Layer by layer the truth seeps out into the open. Then it is anybody’s guess how he will deal with what terrible things he eventually discovers, as part three unlocks the truth about the curse of Beckett’s Wood.