Cassandra Brooks is a single mother-of-two, schoolteacher and water diviner. Deep in the woods as she dowses the land for a property developer, she is confronted by the body of a young girl, swinging from a tree, hanged. When she returns with the authorities, the body has vanished. Already regarded as an eccentric, her story is disbelieved- until a girl turns up in the woods, alive, mute and identical to the girl in Cassandra's vision.

In the days that follow, Cassandra's visions become darker and more frequent as they begin to take on a tangible form. Forced to confront a past she has tried to forget, Cassandra finds herself locked in a game of cat-and-mouse with a real life killer who has haunted her for longer than she can remember.

At once an ingeniously plotted mystery and a magical love story, The Diviner's Tale will pull you helplessly down into Cassandra's luminous world.

A mother experiences visions of a young girl's murder in this spellbinding story

About the Author
Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer, and has taught at Princeton, Brown and Columbia universities. Professor of literature and Bard Centre Fellow at Bard College and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the founding editor of Conjunctions literary magazine. He lives in New York City.

Reviews
This sublime new novel detonates the very notion of genre. And it works because it is riveting, insightful, sentence by sentence charged with feeling, as it bears us helpless with it on its downward journey to illumination -- Peter Straub, winner of Bram Stoker Award
Beautifully written and tautly paced... a tale whose subtle and mysterious confluences are as elusive as water underground -- Thomas H. Cook, winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award
Superb. The only thing I did for two straight days was read this book-it really is that riveting... somehow alchemically able to combine suspense, wonder, and romance all in one seamless story that kept you guessing -- Jonathan Carroll, winner of World Fantasy Award
Chilling and impossible to put down. Morrow is at the top of his form: bold, original, and mesmerizing. Truly a stunning achievement -- Valerie Martin, winner of the Orange Prize
Bradford Morrow is a force of nature... The Diviner's Tale will not only delight, it will endure -- Robert Olen Butler, winner of Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
A chilling, genre-busting tale... just when you think it can't get any darker, Morrow reveals his trump card. Startling. * Daily Mirror *
Its style and intelligence makes it a cut above genre fiction. The beauty of the wilderness which ironically, she is helping to destroy is beautifully conveyed... the plot rachets up another degree of tension and there is a romance element thrown in unexpectedly... As a portrait of a person who doesn't fit, Morrow's novel is a very much in the vein of Hawthorne. * Independent *
A complex story of love, memories and murder, all touched by a suspicion of supernatural forces at work. Coupled with his sympathetic eye for characters... Morrow's feel for the back-country landscape is impressive. * Mail on Sunday *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848875722
Author Bradford Morrow
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Corvus
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 402g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 30mm