Book description
A dazzling chilller from the bestselling author of KOKO and LOST BOY
LOST GIRL.
Award-winning children's book author Willy Patrick seems to be having a
breakdown. Figures from her past are coming to visit her, most
frighteningly her dead daughter, Holly, who was murdered together with
Willy's first husband. Then Willy discovers her mysterious fiancé may
well have been responsible for the deaths of her husband and daughter.
After fleeing the house they are renovating she runs into Tim
Underhill, also an author haunted by the deaths of loved ones. In fact,
his long-deceased nine-year-old sister recently appeared to him on the
way to his favourite diner, and he's been getting strange emails from
people in his home town - none of whom are still alive. But what really
spooks him is the realization that Willy seems to be the heroine of the
book he is currently working on, in precisely the mortal peril he has
invented for her… PRAISE FOR PETER STRAUB:
'Straub is a master at creating fear out of everyday life.'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'No one is better than Straub at having whole communities rocked by the
forces of wickedness.'
OBSERVER
PRAISE FOR IN THE NIGHT ROOM:
'Master of the macabre Straub sits fear on your shoulder in a tale which
is blacker than the night.' NORTHERN ECHO
'Unforgettable' GUARDIAN
PRAISE FOR LOST BOY LOST GIRL:
'Lost Boy Lost Girl is intense and yet measured; serious and melancholy
at times, but also humorous. Straub's prose has a tart clarity that
allows him to delineate the muddiness of life with great economy and
richness. He has a superb ear for dialogue, both spoken and silent. He
is adept, too, with ambiguity; the emotional blur of the real world, of
our tentative and ambivalent responses to each other and the things we
do. These qualities create an atmosphere that lingers like the novel's
own ghost, and Straub achieves this invisibly, in the background. He
doesn't insist you notice how intelligent and subtle the novel is, and
you don't: you merely appreciate how good a time you're having, and that
you don't want it to stop.' Michael Marshall, GUARDIAN
'Stephen King's mate and co-author puts the monster master into the
shade. This'll have you anxiously contemplating the shadows' MIRROR
'Mr Straub's latest is an unusually taut, dynamic, spooky display of
horror expertise, and its story is deftly told.' NEW YORK TIMES Born
in Milwaukee, Peter Straub is the author of sixteen novels, which have
been translated into more than twenty languages. He has won the British
Fantasy Award, two Bram Stoker awards and two World Fantasy awards. His
most recent publications are a collection of short stories, MAGIC
TERROR, the acclaimed novel LOST BOY LOST GIRL and BLACK HOUSE, the
international bestselling novel that he co-wrote with Stephen King.
