EVE QUESTED

Some houses have secrets.
The Stoneway holds memories.

The Stoneway — a historical time-slip novel by Eve Quested, inspired by an old house in the Kent Weald and the generations who called it home.

Available in paperback, hardback and eBook editions from 3 November 2026.Where to Buy Online

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The Stoneway

When Gabbie moves with her parents into Stoneway House, an ancient Kent home built and rebuilt across centuries, she is fascinated by one feature no one can explain: a small wooden door set into stonework seemingly older than the house itself.One night, the doorway leads somewhere impossible.Stepping through, Gabbie finds herself inside Stoneway House generations before she was born. The rooms are familiar but changed, and the people she meets know nothing of the future that awaits them.It is only the beginning.As Gabbie's journeys continue, she is drawn her into the lives of the ordinary people who once called this place home. She shares in worlds shaped by family and friendship, work and duty, and the uncertainties of their own time. She sees how the house has changed over the centuries and comes to know the people whose lives helped shape it.But Gabbie is not there simply to watch.Gradually, she begins to understand that she has been drawn her into these times for a reason. She finds herself caught up in events where her presence matters. Her choices affect the lives of those around her and, in ways she could never have anticipated, the future of Stoneway House itself.What began as an impossible doorway into the past becomes something more. Gabbie is not simply discovering the history of Stoneway House. She is becoming part of it. The ancient stonework at its heart holds secrets and memories that have endured through centuries of change.Inspired by the history of a medieval Wealden hall house, The Stoneway is an atmospheric journey through centuries of English life.One house. Centuries of lives. And a doorway that remembers them all.

The Story Behind The Book

Many years ago, while researching my family history, I discovered that my ancestors had lived for generations in an old house in the Weald of Kent. When I visited, its owners had traced the ownership back to the early nineteenth century. A clothier family was believed to have owned the house much earlier, but little else was known, and no one knew that my own family had once lived there.That discovery set me on a path I would return to over many years.At first, I wanted to understand my family’s connection with the house. How had they come to own it? How long had they lived there? Why had they eventually left? Could I uncover enough evidence to piece their story together? Answers slowly emerged, each leading to another question. I never found every answer, but I found enough to begin building a picture. Gradually my attention shifted beyond my own family to the house itself and the people who had lived there before them.I discovered how the house had changed over the centuries, reflecting the changing lives of the people who called it home. The building that survives today carries the marks of hundreds of years of change, each generation inheriting what had gone before and leaving something for those who followed.As I learnt more about the house and its history, I became increasingly drawn to the ordinary people who had lived there: farmers, clothiers, carpenters, their servants and children. I wanted to understand how their lives and the building itself were intertwined. Details of their lives rarely survive, yet they are the people who shaped the place we still see today.Those first questions led to a journey that took me further than I could ever have imagined. As these earlier worlds came alive for me, I began to wonder how I could share that sense of discovery with others. That question led to The Stoneway.Gabbie’s journeys into the past are fictional, but they allowed me to weave together fragments I’d uncovered into stories of people whose lives shaped this place over many centuries. Through her eyes, readers can share the same curiosity that first drew me into the house’s past, gradually peeling back the layers to reveal how it came to be what it is today.I hope The Stoneway encourages readers to look more closely at the world around them. Every old house, every village and every landscape has a story waiting to be discovered. Sometimes all it takes to begin the journey is a little imagination and the courage to ask a few questions.

About Eve Quested

Eve Quested is the author of The Stoneway, a historical time-slip novel inspired by a real Wealden hall house and the generations who lived there.I've been fascinated by old buildings for as long as I can remember. I'm rarely interested in the pictures hanging on their walls; it's the buildings themselves that capture my imagination. I find myself wondering how they have changed over the centuries, who lived there, and what those buildings might still reveal about the people who once called them home.My debut novel, The Stoneway, grew out of many years researching my family's history and its connection with a former Wealden hall house they called home for four generations.When I'm not writing or exploring Britain's landscapes and history, I enjoy spending time with my family and my two Vizslas, Kite, my old girl, and Réka, the newest addition to our household.

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