She enjoys writing within the range of young adult fiction because there is a lot that you can do within it. It was more selections like books by Stephen King or Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. The author admits that when she was younger she was not reading the young adult genre all that much. While she now writes young adult fiction, it was never her goal to start out with. She wrote a book, got an agent, wrote another book, and applied to a graduate school in Scotland that she got accepted to. So she decided to give her notice on her job and move in with her parents once more, which ended up lasting for around nine months. She had been living there for nearly four years when she decided that she needed to do something drastic if she was going to pursue being a writer. Katrina was previously living in New York, working as a retail manager full time. Leno attended school where she majored in English and had a focus on creative writing. She has lived in many different places, from Los Angeles to New York to Connecticut to Scotland. Katrina Leno is a published American author of fiction. Is it grief? Mental illness? Or something more. Then Jane discovers that the "storage room" her mom has kept locked isn't for storage at all-it's a little girl's bedroom, left untouched for years and not quite as empty of inhabitants as it appears. Jane's mom also seems to be spiraling with the return of her childhood home, but she won't reveal why. She steadily begins making new friends, but also faces bullying from the resident "bad seed," struggling to tamp down her own worst nature in response.
As the cold New England autumn arrives, and Jane settles in to her new home, she finds solace in old books and memories of her dad. All they want is a fresh start, but behind North Manor's doors lurks a history that leaves them feeling more alone.
Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from sunny California to the dreary, dilapidated old house in Maine where her mother grew up. From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores themes of mental illness, rage, and grief, twisted with spine-chilling elements of Stephen King and Agatha Christie.
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