Barbara Erskine

Barbara Erskine is a British author who is one of the pioneers of the historical supernatural novel. She is the author of many bestselling novels that blend historical fiction with elements of the supernatural, including Lady of Hay, her debut, which sold over three million copies. The Ghost Tree weaves together two timelines — the story of Ruth, who inherits her mother's Edinburgh town house, and the life of Thomas Erskine, an eighteenth-century Lord Chancellor. Erskine's fiction is characterised by its atmospheric settings, its rich historical detail, and its seamless blending of past and present. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers atmospheric historical fiction with a supernatural edge — novels that bring the past vividly to life and blur the line between history and haunting.