The Funfair
On sale
8th May 2025
Price: £9.99
“A compulsive, page-turning thriller – kept me invested and guessing from start to finish. Loved it”- Jennie Godfrey, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS on The Beach Hut
The sweet smell of fresh popcorn. The circus music. The lights of the ferris wheel. The hand across my mouth.
THEN
Popular kids Rachel, Penny, Tom and Jake love it when the fun fair comes to their seaside town every year. It’s always the best night of summer.
This year is extra special: it’s the last fun fair before the high-flying group leaves for university and they plan to make it a fun fair to remember.
NOW
Rachel still lives in town, caring for her mother, avoiding everyone. There are rumours about her: how she was supposed to go places, how she never accepted her prestigious drama school scholarship. How she hates the fun fair.
When Penny, Tom and Jake arrive back in town to celebrate Penny and Tom’s wedding, Rachel is faced with the group she was once so close to. Before long, the memories from that last carnival come back to haunt them… and Rachel is right back in the House of Horrors once again.
A gripping psychological thriller from the author of The Beach Hut – perfect for your summer reading…
The sweet smell of fresh popcorn. The circus music. The lights of the ferris wheel. The hand across my mouth.
THEN
Popular kids Rachel, Penny, Tom and Jake love it when the fun fair comes to their seaside town every year. It’s always the best night of summer.
This year is extra special: it’s the last fun fair before the high-flying group leaves for university and they plan to make it a fun fair to remember.
NOW
Rachel still lives in town, caring for her mother, avoiding everyone. There are rumours about her: how she was supposed to go places, how she never accepted her prestigious drama school scholarship. How she hates the fun fair.
When Penny, Tom and Jake arrive back in town to celebrate Penny and Tom’s wedding, Rachel is faced with the group she was once so close to. Before long, the memories from that last carnival come back to haunt them… and Rachel is right back in the House of Horrors once again.
A gripping psychological thriller from the author of The Beach Hut – perfect for your summer reading…
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Reviews
Praise for THE BEACH HUT
A compulsive, page-turning thriller - kept me invested and guessing from start to finish. Loved it
Atmosphere, intrigue and decades old secrets and lies uncovered on the tide - this novel has it all.
The innocence of children blossoming into adults during the lazy hazy days of a beach summer only to be devastated by a terrible tragedy is so beautifully and deftly handled that it's hard to believe this is a debut. The Beach Hut positively sizzles. It's as twisty as a sand worm castle with a plot that sizzles with dread and suspense!
Leah has spun a gripping, knotty web of secrets with a cast of complex characters. The setting is wonderful, drawing the reader in . . . before whipping up a storm that brings a cloudy, claustrophobic atmosphere of lies and paranoia that leaves you turning the pages faster and faster.
A tense and compelling tale of love and loss, secrets, and lies -- and their terrible consequences. Builds to a thrilling ending. I tore through this in two days!