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Kate Alice Marshall | A Ghost Known as the Drowning Girl
Author Guest / August 3, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE NARROW 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Reeling from a traumatic summer, Eden White returns to her beloved boarding school to discover her tuition hasn’t been paid—and she’ll only be able to stay if she becomes the live-in companion to Delphine Fournier, a girl who must live in careful isolation, as even a drop of untreated water might be deadly to her, and who has a mysterious connection to the ghost known as the Drowning Girl. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve always loved stories of boarding schools, particularly the haunted kind. The basics of Atwood School were obvious enough, but when it came to haunting it, I wanted a ghost tied inextricably to the physical place. The Narrow was inspired by a real place—the Bolton Strid, a very similar body of water on the other side of the ocean. The deceptive calm of both the Strid and the Narrow, a calm which hides seemingly endless, deadly depths, was the perfect metaphor for a haunted place and a haunted life, and once I had threaded those waters through the grounds of Atwood,…