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Number-one best-selling author Josephine Cox returns with a powerful, dark love story shrouded in shocking secrets and malignant forces.All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnight…. Molly and Jack are deeply in love but their relationship is being torn apart by Jack's nightmares. Trapped in a place where he is taunted by eyes in the gloom, it is becoming harder for Molly to pull him free, and when daylight comes the haunting visions remain.

It’s 1954 and Adam Carter is 12 years old, an only child with no friends nor any self-confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam’s mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam’s only support comes in the shape of Jake Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Jake decides to accompany him along the darkening wood land to his house.

Die Autorin Katja Brunner war erst 18 Jahre alt, als sie "von den beinen zu kurz" schrieb. 2013 gewann sie damit den renommierten Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis. "Die Autorin überschreitet Tabus, ohne dabei je reißerisch zu sein", heißt es in der Begründung der Jury. Nach internationalen Bühnenerfolgen hat der Regisseur Erik Altorfer den Text bearbeitet und für den WDR als Hörspiel inszeniert.