Visitor. Rebecca Starford. 2025.

‘Ghosts live in the sunshine too.’

For most of her adult life, Laura has lived in the UK, her ties to her Brisbane upbringing all but severed. When her parents, Bruce and Eliza, perished in mysterious circumstances in the Queensland outback, she and her family must return to settle their affairs and sell the now-dilapidated house of her childhood. 

But as the renovations progress, Laura starts to experience strange happenings in the house that cannons be explained away, is it haunted? Or is the woman next door, who had inveigled her way into Bruce and Eliza’s lives, testing her as she files with the grief and trauma of their deaths?

Fourteen-year-old Tilly, alarmed by her mother’s increasingly erratic behaviour, is drawn into the disturbing atmosphere of the house as the distance between them grows. And with both of them seeing things, Laura realises that unless she unearths what drove her parents to flee the house, they will never be free of the past.