Gabrielle Mullarkey

Gabrielle Mullarkey is an award-winning author and seasoned storyteller. Having written three previous novels and over 3,000 short stories and serials for magazines across the UK and beyond, she delivers gripping, character-driven fiction.

As a journalist, she’s contributed features, travel writing and opinion pieces to a wide range of publications.

Her writing has been broadcast on radio, adapted for audio downloads, and has won or been shortlisted in writing competitions. She’s served as a writing judge, teaches creative writing for local authorities, and has led therapeutic writing workshops for hospices and mental health charities.

With an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Gabrielle brings rare emotional depth to her storytelling – fiction that’s as human as it is haunting.

THE ONES WHO NEVER LEFT is Gabrielle’s first, full-length gothic novel, partly inspired by her early childhood in rural Co Galway, where both the land and the house she lived in were rich in atmosphere and stories.

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THE ONES WHO NEVER LEFT – a new, chilling gothic novel

Newlyweds Lucy and Hugh Driscoll jump at the chance to become property guardians of isolated Rook House, a gothic relic in rural Yorkshire. It feels like the perfect place to escape the weight of the past and rekindle inspiration. Hugh hopes to finish writing his book. Lucy longs to pick up a paintbrush again.

Locals say that Rook House is haunted by its original, unhappy occupants. But what old house doesn’t have a story to tell?

Soon, however, the couple start to feel they’re not alone in the house or walking the nearby woods. And before long, they hear and see what can’t be explained.

If the ghosts are real and restless, what do they want of its latest occupants?

As cracks form in the Driscolls’ relationship and their unresolved childhood traumas resurface, something in Rook House awakens.

Too late, Hugh and Lucy realise they should never have come to Rook House.

Not if they ever hoped to leave.