A gripping novel based on the true tale of an old woman's conscience. Left a fortune by her husband's invention of the Winchester Rifle, Sarah is visited by the violent death moment of people who have been shot.
Inspired by the true-story of the Winchester Mystery House in California.
Guilt mires Sarah Winchester. When her husband dies, she inherits the fortune of husband's invention of the Winchester rifle. After, her own complicity in the deaths of those killed by the rifle, haunts her relentlessly. So, in an effort to ease her conscience, she begins the construction of the Winchester House, a maze of rooms meant to house the dead Sarah cannot seem to escape.
Inspired by the true story of Sarah Winchester, Bruton has come up with a strong central idea, and he does it justice in this absorbing, well-written novel of a woman's search for redemption.-The Herald
'Douglas Bruton's Mrs. Winchester's Gun Club could hardly be more timely... The concept is brilliant.'- The Scotsman
a book about responsibility and atonement and forgiveness... and guns - Scottish Book Trust
Douglas Bruton has been writing for thirty years. He is widely published in short story anthologies and has won many prizes for his writing in the last eight years, including the Neil Gunn Prize and The William Soutar Prize. He is also published in many literary magazines including Northwoods Now, Interpreter's House, Transmission and Bare Fiction Magazine.