The release date for the English version of 'The Children on the Hill' by
Jennifer McMahon is Oct 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Inspired by Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind returns with a genre-bending thriller that deftly examines the sinister secrets of infancy and the misdeeds committed by the monsters among us.
1978: Renowned Vermont treatment facility director and brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Helen Hildreth receives accolades for her kind work with mentally ill patients. But when she's spending time with her beloved grandkids, Vi and Eric, she's simply Gran; she cooks them meals at home, teaches them how to take care of their pets, and shows them love and care.
Eventually, Gran brings a kid to live with the family one day. Iris is not like other girls; she is shy, ferocious, hollow-eyed, and mute.
Violet is excited to have a new playmate despite everything. Iris receives an invitation from her and Eric to join their Monster Club, where they record various creatures and devise strategies for vanquishing them. Iris soon starts to emerge from her shell. She, Vi, and Eric go on drives-ins, ride their bicycles, gather at their clubhouse covertly, and go monster hunting. Since, as Vi says, there are monsters everywhere.
2019: The well-known podcast broadcaster Lizzy Shelley is visiting Vermont, the state where a small girl has been kidnapped and a monster sighting has the population in a frenzy. Lizzy is adamant on finding it since, as far as anybody knows, monsters exist, and one of them happens to be her own sister.
The Children on the Hill is an eerie, intensely suspenseful page-turner written by Chris Bohjalian, the author of The Flight Attendant, who has been called a "literary descendant of Shirley Jackson." It takes us on an intense trip to confront our deepest fears.