We are looking forward to welcoming JJ Carpenter back to The Book Cow for the launch of her latest novel, The Haunting of Kenmore Asylum.

ABOUT THE BOOK

I am always there.
Perhaps I always have been?
Perhaps there is no end for me …

1910
The mentally unwell are considered dangerous and a blight to be kept hidden from family and society. The recently opened Kenmore Asylum is bursting at the seams. Amidst the churn, Nurse Harriet tries to make a real impact on her charges. But one of them, Alice, seems beyond anyone’s help…

1950s
Bonnie is a fresh, determined nurse trainee, out to prove herself and make her way into the world. But nothing is as she expected when the shadows are rife with the spirits of those who haven’t walked the halls of Kenmore in a very long time.

2021
The notoriously haunted Kenmore Asylum stands abandoned behind an easily circumnavigated fence. YouTube ghost hunters Aiden and Devin seek fame and fortune behind its walls—but something else just might find them first.

Inspired by true events and factual accounts of life at Kenmore Asylum, Goulburn, Australia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Canberra, Australia, JJ has been writing books since she was six years old—a collection of kooky tales she would staple together and hide in a shoebox under her bed. Penning her first novel at age twelve, her love of all things creepy, supernatural, and wild has never left her. Join JJ as she journeys through haunted places and chilling mysteries of the beautiful country and rich history of Australia.
JJ’s other works include The Corner of Her Eye, a series of Australian ghost stories exploring the concept of purgatory.