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A really exciting rediscovery now up for preorder! In Margaret Tabor's UNITY PENFOLD (1980), also published as NIGHTMARE STREET, a woman returns home to find her house has vanished into thin air. Worse, there is no record of her husband or children's existence, and friends and neighbors treat her as a complete stranger. Is it a monstrous practical joke? Is she losing her mind? Or is something much weirder going on? This new reissue of this Twilight Zone-esque novel features both the original UK ending and the alternate US one.

https://www.valancourtbooks.com/unity...



Description

Unity Penfold arrives home one day to her quiet residential street to find that her house has vanished into thin air. Worse, her children's school has no record of them, and no trace of her husband can be found. Her neighbors and friends show no signs of recognizing her as anything but a complete stranger.

When she is taken to hospital and informed that she has been identified as a missing woman, Sarah Davies, no one will believe her desperate protests about her true identity. Is she the victim of a monstrous practical joke? Is she delusional or insane? Or has she somehow slipped into some sort of alternate reality? To avoid the asylum, she has no choice but to become Sarah as she sets out to search for answers to the bizarre and horrific nightmare in which she suddenly finds herself.

Reviews

"From the first jolting sentence to last disquieting paragraph, this book is an absolute gem ... [a] chilling adventure into the unknown." — Jersey Journal

"Compelling ... holds the reader from start to finish." — Northern Echo

"Handled convincingly, sharply and with brilliance ... The writing is finely honed, there is plenty of excitement." — Daily Telegraph