People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.

And as they grew older, odd, eerie occurrences seemed to follow in their wake. More troubling, their appearance began to change: their blue eyes now black, their dark hair now white. As children, they disappeared on a Scottish city street only to return a month later with no memory of what had happened to them or where they'd been. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Krystal Sutherland’s latest novel is a dark and twisty modern-day fairytale that expertly melds the fantastical with the real as the Hollow sisters discover just how much horror can lie beneath the surface.Darkly seductive, this twisty modern-day fairy tale by critically acclaimed author Krystal Sutherland is a gripping, terrifying journey where three sisters discover they are not all that they seem. As they brush against the supernatural, they realise that the story they’ve been told about their past is unravelling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home. They aren’t the only ones looking for her.

But when Grey goes missing, leaving behind only bizarre clues, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. Now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school – something her two famously glamorous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful and inexplicably dangerous. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. 'Stepping nimbly among the liminal spaces and eerie real-world haunts of our heroine’s cipher-sister, this haunting modern fairytale will wrap you up like a glittering fog, before going for your throat.’ Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood I’ll put it like this – I am obsessed with House of Hollow.’ Louise O'Neill, author of Printz Honor Book, Asking For It

'This dark, deliciously twisted novel has everything you could hope for as a reader – a brilliant concept, glamorous characters with secrets to hide, immersive world-building, and some of the finest writing I’ve seen in YA fiction.

House of hollow by krystal sutherland