Krystelle Bamford on her debut novel, a dark comedy set on a sprawling New England estate

“It is very much a book about stasis. About something that struggles to move forward.”

Author InterviewsFeb 28, 2025by Lauren Brown

Krystelle Bamford © David Gow

Poet Bamford’s debut novel, Idle Grounds, is an unsettling dark comedy, in which a group of children search for their missing cousin across their late grandmother’s sprawling New England estate.

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