9 Top gothic books like Mrs England by Stacey Halls

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Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi…

"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They expected I'd be happy, but I wasn't and that made everything seem worse. I felt very helpless and alone."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

If you liked the gothic plot in Mrs England by Stacey Halls , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. The Mother

By: T.M. Logan

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Framed for murder. Now she's free . . . A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and w… read more

Similar categories in T.M. Logan's The Mother book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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3. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

Similar categories in Jo Browning Wroe's A Terrible Kindness book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Lamplighters

By: Emma Stonex

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more

Similar categories in Emma Stonex's The Lamplighters book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

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5. Godmersham Park

By: Gill Hornby

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more

Similar categories in Gill Hornby's Godmersham Park book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."

-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

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6. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Shape of Darkness

By: Laura Purcell

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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8. Weyward

By: Emilia Hart

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

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9. Songbirds

By: Christy Lefteri

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more

Similar categories in Christy Lefteri's Songbirds book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

Cover of Mrs England by Stacey Halls

10. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

Cover of The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) by Jessie Burton

11. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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12. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Keeper of Stories book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

Cover of The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page

13. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Book of Beginnings book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Doll Factory

By: Elizabeth Macneal

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Doll Factory book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"

-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

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15. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Lily book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. The Birdcage

By: Eve Chase

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Kat, Flora and Lauren are half-sisters who share a famous artist father - and a terrible secret. … read more

Similar categories in Eve Chase's The Birdcage book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Confession by Jessie Burton

18. The Confession

By: Jessie Burton

3.91

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The Confession book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[...] And women are always like that.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well, all the women I know who've left long-term relationships in their thirties checked out of it long before they actually did. They went…"

-Jessie Burton, The Confession

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19. The Glass House

By: Eve Chase

3.98

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family tak… read more

Similar categories in Eve Chase's The Glass House book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

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20. The Asylum

By: Karen Coles

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lu… read more

Similar categories in Karen Coles's The Asylum book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

21. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Stacey Halls's Mrs England

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.38

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