Delia Kilbride

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Delia Kilbride

Writes quiet novels of dread set in small towns

Delia Kilbride writes about small towns that look after people for a living. She lives in the Ohio valley. Getting Better, a Quarry Bend novel, is her first.

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  • Someone has to stay.
  • There is no monster in it.
  • There is always a reasonable explanation.

Biography

What it costs to be the one who stays.

Delia Kilbride writes about small towns that look after people for a living. She lives in the Ohio valley. Getting Better is her first novel.

Her novels are quiet on purpose. There is no monster in them; everything frightening is a body, a document, or a schedule, and every part of it has a reasonable explanation. They are about what it costs to be the one who stays.

What you can count on

The signature under every Delia Kilbride novel

  1. Dread, never a scare

    No jump, no chill, no house at night. The fear is arithmetic: a number on a calendar, a weight that will not account for itself.

  2. Everything frightening is ordinary

    A body, a document, or a schedule. Nothing in the book cannot be explained, and the book gives you the explanation every time.

  3. Quiet, said out loud

    Slow-burn, restrained, book-club fiction with a wound in it. If you want a monster, this is not the shelf.

  4. Small towns that look after people

    Hospice nurses, dental hygienists, night-shift aides: the people paid to care, and what the caring takes out of them.

  5. The one who stays

    Every Delia Kilbride novel is about the person who did not leave, and what that decision costs them.

Books by Delia Kilbride

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A Quarry Bend Novel

Getting Better

She brought her mother home to die. Her mother is getting better.

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Contact

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