The Two Houses. Fran Cooper. ISBN:9781473641594

After a fulfilled career in ceramics, Jay is cracking. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, she and her husband Simon move to a desolate land in the north of England, where they find and fall in love with Two Houses: a crumbling property whose central rooms were supposedly haunted, so much so that the previous owner had them cut out entirely. building. But as they uproot their city life and move to the secluded gray village of Hestle, Jay and Simon discover that it's not just the Two Houses that are haunted by a shadowy past. It became increasingly clear that the villagers did not want them here at all, and when construction work began to make the two houses whole again, the discovery was made that decades-old secrets would be unearthed... But who in the village keeps them?