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Expected 25 Jun 26Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. Her job as a PA to the blithely privileged Jeannie is boring, and existentially depressing, and now, after a break-up, she has nowhere to live for the next two months.
Her best friends Ben and Anita are keen to help, but Danielle's broke, burning through couches and good-will, until she gets an unexpected proposal from Jeannie. Danielle can stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where Jeannie grew up. They need someone to look after the old place anyway. She'd be doing them a favour.
At Westerley, Danielle luxuriates in her idyllic, borrowed life as lady of the manor - but the house is big, old and uneasy. It's a strange place to live alone. The sleep paralysis that began in London is beginning to worsen.
And then Jeannie arrives unannounced. Working for her, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries begin Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into something older, stranger and harder to name.
Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle?
SERVICE is a sharp, darkly funny ghost story about class, work and social mobility that introduces a bold new voice in fiction.
Her best friends Ben and Anita are keen to help, but Danielle's broke, burning through couches and good-will, until she gets an unexpected proposal from Jeannie. Danielle can stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where Jeannie grew up. They need someone to look after the old place anyway. She'd be doing them a favour.
At Westerley, Danielle luxuriates in her idyllic, borrowed life as lady of the manor - but the house is big, old and uneasy. It's a strange place to live alone. The sleep paralysis that began in London is beginning to worsen.
And then Jeannie arrives unannounced. Working for her, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries begin Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into something older, stranger and harder to name.
Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle?
SERVICE is a sharp, darkly funny ghost story about class, work and social mobility that introduces a bold new voice in fiction.
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February 12, 2026
A creepy ghost story set in a contemporary environment. The main protagonist was interesting and the overall story was engaging. This was really a book of two halves. The first, introduced setting and main characters, and the second half dealt with the more unusual elements in the story. Overall an enjoyable read but I would have preferred the first half to be shorter which would have allowed the second (and more engaging) half to be longer.
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