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Gavin Eyers

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Usually told around the beginning or end of relationships, his fiction sometimes has a ghost or two peering in, somewhere... His flash fiction story 'Shubunkin' was shortlisted for the 2021 Farnham Flash Fiction Award, and his short story 'Here Too' was recently published by The Fiction Desk in the anthology New Ghost Stories IV. His debut novel, The Deceit Birds, published in 2016, his second, The Garden of Longing, in 2020. His latest book, Amber in December: A Christmas Novella, is out now. He lives in Bracknell, England. ...more

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	The Garden of Longing 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amber in December: A Christmas Novella 3.56 avg rating — 52 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Garden of Longing

Hi all! The Garden of Longing is a ghostly tale of a Victorian lady, and of the gardener who reads her diary over a hundred years later and discovers that he believes in love.
I am very excited to be sharing this new novel! I have thought about Robert the gardener every day for the past few years that I have been writing this, so it also seems kind of strange for me to be saying 'goodbye' to him! I Read more of this blog post »

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The Shape of Darkness

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Collected Ghost Stories

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A City Road diary: The record of three years in Victorian London

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