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The Hidden (Golding novel)

novel by Melanie Golding

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ120404611 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hidden is a 2021 horror novel by Melanie Golding.

Background and publication history

The book is based on the folktale of "The Mermaid Bride". The novel's protagonist Detective Jo Harper had previously appeared in Golding's debut novel Little Darlings. It was published on November 9, 2021, by Crooked Lane Books.

Reception

The book received mostly positive reviews from critics, who noted its ambiguous and layered plotlines. Publishers Weekly wrote that "Golding smoothly mixes folklore with an insightful exploration of motherhood". Claire Forster, writing for Foreword Reviews, described the novel as a "superlative fairytale-infused thriller".

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“The Hidden (Golding novel)” enters the record as novel by Melanie Golding. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hidden, Golding and novel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hidden, Golding and novel.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q120404611. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Hidden (Golding novel)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.