The Infirmary: The chilling new gothic thriller from the author of The Toll House, perfect for Halloween 2025

Carly Reagon

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Obsession is a sickness

For which there is no cure.

Suffolk, 1847.

Charles Keller needs to escape London, so he leaps when he is offered a position as surgeon at a country infirmary for the poor. But St Cross is not as he expected, and he soon finds himself reflecting on a promise he once made. A promise to do no harm.

Some promises are made to be broken.

Suffolk, 2023.

Liam has brought his family to an old country house for a holiday, a former infirmary called St Cross. He can't tell them why they are really here, but he hopes that, after this, he can start again. No more lies, no more secrets. But what Liam doesn't know is that the house is keeping secrets of its own.

And some secrets are so dark, they should never be brought to light.

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Praise for The Infirmary: The chilling new gothic thriller from the author of The Toll House, perfect for Halloween 2025

  • Hear Him Calling is rare, sinister and stunningCarly Reagon is one to watch Honestly the scariest book I've read in a very long timeMy shivers of dread were such that I had to wait until I wasn't alone in the house to finish this book - OBSERVERCarly Reagon is making her mark as a superb gothic writer - PRIMA

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Carly Reagon

Carly Reagon

Carly Reagon is the author of three novels: The Toll House, which was a Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month, Hear Him Calling and The Infirmary. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction. Her writing is inspired by her love of the Welsh countryside where she lives with her husband and three children. She works as a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, is a keen hiker and singer, and has an interest in anything historic.

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