Darkrooms - January 2026 Crime Collective Helen Monks Takhar Degraded and terrified

Degraded and terrified

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But mostly its a story about a family trying to work out how to carry on when their world has fallen apart

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Darkrooms - January 2026 Crime Collective Helen Monks Takhar Degraded and terrifiedTwo girls went into the Hanging Woods. Only one returned. Twenty years ago Caitlin vowed never to return to her small Irish hometown. Now she drifts from temporary jobs to temporary men, trying to escape memories of the Hanging Woods. Of what happened to Roisin there. But with news of her estranged mother's sudden death, Caitlin is forced to return home, back to the town where everyone knows each other's business and old resentments run deep. Roisin's