The Hamlet

<p>Screens go blank radios go silent and a government announcement is made advising everyone to stay indoors. The residents of a rural Scottish community abandon their picnics and return home. Everyone can sense that something is wrong...</p><p></p><p><strong><em>The Hamlet </em></strong>is a new novella by Scottish author Joanna Corrance who delivers a fabulous tale that dances between horror and science fiction with an added dash of weird.</p><p></p><p>We are introduced to inhabitants of the Hamlet including Eve a businesswoman stranded when the planes are grounded; Robyn an artist who accepts a commission to create a peculiar dollhouse with dire consequences; Helen desperate to provide content for her online followers; Jeanie for whom monster may be more real than even she relaises; Polly a neglected child with her own unique way of coping with reality... Together the lives of these and others enable us to piece together what really happened in a very peculiar rural community when 'things got strange'.</p>