Rhiannon Grist

Home Sick is an interesting time to say the least, with Grist’s ability to render atmosphere doing a lot of the heavy lifting but not only. For, even though this is not your typical haunted house – the tagline of the book is after all “The house isn’t haunted. She is” – the claustrophobia is real. Except, instead of the physical walls of a building closing in on you, it is the metaphorical walls of the protagonist’s stream of consciousness-like narration that makes you feel short of breath.