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Barbara Erskine


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in Nottingham, The United Kingdom
August 10, 1944

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An historian by training, Barbara Erskine is the author of six bestselling novels that demonstrate her interest in both history and the supernatural, plus two collections of short stories. Her books have appeared in at least twenty different languages. She lives with her family in an ancient manor house near Colchester, and in a cottage near Hay-on-Wye.

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Published on October 02, 2025 16:00
Average rating: 4.1 · 59,056 ratings · 4,296 reviews · 53 distinct worksSimilar authors
Lady of Hay

4.07 avg rating — 8,445 ratings — published 1986 — 68 editions
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The Ghost Tree

4.16 avg rating — 4,365 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions
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The Dream Weavers

4.28 avg rating — 4,136 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions
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Sleeper's Castle

4.18 avg rating — 3,935 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions
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House of Echoes

4.10 avg rating — 3,442 ratings — published 1996 — 36 editions
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Kingdom of Shadows

4.25 avg rating — 3,109 ratings — published 1988 — 32 editions
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Midnight is a Lonely Place

4.04 avg rating — 3,217 ratings — published 1994 — 39 editions
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Whispers in the Sand

3.83 avg rating — 3,324 ratings — published 1995 — 41 editions
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The Darkest Hour

4.16 avg rating — 2,862 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions
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Hiding from the Light

4.09 avg rating — 2,861 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions
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“Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,’ she said softly. ‘They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.”
Barbara Erskine, Sleeper's Castle

“What the imagination has made, the imagination can unmake.”
Barbara Erskine, The Ghost Tree

“city. He did not bother to listen to the girl’s words. Her soft English voice sounded tired and blurred under hypnosis and he would have to listen again and again to the tape anyway as Cohen transcribed it and tried to fathom where her comments, if there were any, came from. ‘And now, Joanna,’ the Professor’s voice rose slightly as he shifted on the high stool to make himself more comfortable. ‘We’ll go back again, if you please, back before the darkness, back before the dreams, back to when you were on this earth before.’ He”
Barbara Erskine, Lady of Hay

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