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After having eight (!) crime novels published under the name Alison Belsham, January '26 sees a new departure for me. I'm swapping genres, and my first gothic novel, Winterbourne, will be published under the name Elisabeth Wolf.
What's it about?
I've loved gothic stories since I was a teenager and two of the most notable are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. They have all the classic gothic tropes - an isolated property, a naive young woman, an overbearing antihero with a dark past, and an overwhelming feeling that something isn't quite right... I wanted to take the chance to play with those tropes myself but I chose to write contemporary gothic. Winterbourne takes place in the present day but my heroine, a young librarian called Anne Adams, still finds herself in jeopardy and at the mercy of a dark stranger...
Gothic novels are at the intersection of horror and romance, walking a fine line between the two. I want my readers to be unsettled, even scared at moments, but at the same time swept up in the story of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, finding her way in a world she knows little about.
It's a book I've loved writing and I'm so excited to see it making its way into the world. My publisher, Black & White Publishing, have created a wonderful cover for it and now I'm excited at the prospect of seeing it out in the world.
What's it about?
I've loved gothic stories since I was a teenager and two of the most notable are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. They have all the classic gothic tropes - an isolated property, a naive young woman, an overbearing antihero with a dark past, and an overwhelming feeling that something isn't quite right... I wanted to take the chance to play with those tropes myself but I chose to write contemporary gothic. Winterbourne takes place in the present day but my heroine, a young librarian called Anne Adams, still finds herself in jeopardy and at the mercy of a dark stranger...
Gothic novels are at the intersection of horror and romance, walking a fine line between the two. I want my readers to be unsettled, even scared at moments, but at the same time swept up in the story of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, finding her way in a world she knows little about.
It's a book I've loved writing and I'm so excited to see it making its way into the world. My publisher, Black & White Publishing, have created a wonderful cover for it and now I'm excited at the prospect of seeing it out in the world.
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