Start your year with our new chilling thriller

Set in Glanmorfa, a fictional Carmarthenshire town, Collins draws inspiration from her own childhood to craft a masterful tale of mystery, curiosity and imagination.

Eleanor O’Dowd, a middle-aged piano teacher, is found stabbed and bludgeoned to death. As the Great Freeze takes hold, local vicar’s daughter Daphne Morgan and her friends find themselves attempting to navigate the confusing currents of the adult world.

Daphne finds herself engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than she expected in this breath-taking story.

Tiding is an exploration of death, the afterlife and how a child can become a victim of adult power.

Author Siân Collins was born in Pembrokeshire and lives Carmarthenshire. An Edinburgh graduate, she taught Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature in South Africa, worked as an assistant editor on The Lancet, and ran English and Drama departments in several well-known London secondary schools. She returned to Carmarthenshire to teach, write, and relish life in the beautiful Tywi Valley. Her debut novel, Unleaving, was published in 2019.

Tiding is available from your local bookshop or from most online retailers in paperback and eBook.