Set during the blazing English summer of 1976, recently widowed Heather Lowes moves into the house she was supposed to live with her husband. But now she is alone.

Or at least, she thinks she is. It is a normal terrace house, on an everyday, run-down working class street, in a dying industrial town.

A place that seldom sees the extraordinary. However, when Heather meets her new neighbours - the old woman next door, the kid from a few doors down - they all seem concerned that she has moved into the house at the end of Society Place.

They seem to know something. Heather's nights in the house are troubled.

She senses a presence, particularly on the stairs, and down in the cellar. She dare not go down there.

As the sweltering summer rages on, Heather experiences supernatural turmoil that tests her sanity and pushes her understanding of reality to its very limits. She learns that there isn't just one ghost.

There is a Nest of Ghosts that haunt, not just her house, but all the houses on Society Place. Heather also comes to learn of the Nest's interest in the baby growing inside her, and of the far-reaching consequences of the events of that summer and how they will still be felt into the first decades of the 21st century.

“Dark, disturbing, and teeming with claustrophobic dread, Society Place is a chilling ghost story set in a perfectly conjured 1970s Midlands. ” – Susan Stokes-Chapman (Pandora, The Shadow Key)"Never one for the cheap jump, Barker weaves a story with a slow-building, creeping intensity which practically welds the book to your hands.

This is not throwaway horror, it's an exercise in unbearable, beautiful, haunting melancholy and sadness for readers who like a bit of depth with their thrills. " – Jon Spira (Reel Britannia, Elstree 1976, The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee)“A sinister supernatural ‘70s shocker.

Society Place drips dread and atmosphere with every turn of the page. ” – David Irons (Polybius, Don’t Go to Wheelchair Camp)"A gem of a book that deserves a space alongside the best haunted house stories.

" – J. A.

Sullivan, Kendall Reviews“A great addition to the field of English supernatural horror. ” – David Allkins, Horrified"An unusual and very effective supernatural thriller grounded in a 70s working class Midlands street.

Society Place’s intense dread seeps out of its peeling walls and closes in on the reader from all angles. The authentic characters and setting keep us hooked all the way through, until it’s too late.

Powerful stuff. " – Leigh Dovey (The Fallow Field, Tooth and Claw, Bad Code).