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The Girl On The Landing (Paperback)
Paul Torday (author)Published: 25/06/2009
'The best book of the year... truly astonishing' Sunday Express
'An exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller' Mail on Sunday
'Surprising and suspenseful' Observer
A GHOST STORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER AND A TALE OF LOVE REDISCOVERED, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited.
But then Michael begins to change.
It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last.
But who - or what - is changing Michael?
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780753823408
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 260 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
The finale is terrifying, harking back to old-fashioned ghost stories, but with a modern, plausible twist - it stood the hairs of my arms on end - DAILY TELEGRAPH
Torday skilfully maintains a knife-edge tension... an original and satisfying thriller - DAILY MAIL
A gently comic novel about schizophrenia sounds like the worst idea ever, but Torday pulls it off magnificently.. a clever, gripping novel - THE TIMES
Paul Torday's third and extremely accomplished novel.. is another tour de force from one of our best emerging writers - DAILY EXPRESS
Compelling and totally captivating - BELLA
His prose remains anything but safe. It is supple, skilful and literary... this is a fabulously good yarn - OBSERVER
The author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN impresses again with this absorbing tale of identity - PSYCHOLOGIES
A fantastically gripping and chilling novel - BEST
A compulsively readable psychological thriller... Torday's ability to keep the reader in the grip of a nightmare is exceptional - METRO
Torday is a gifted writer, I loved it - THE BOOKSELLER
Told by husband and wife, this intriguing story of the impact of ghostly visitors is an unusual exploration of mental illness - CHOICE
What starts as a tale of domestic disharmony evolves into a gripping, ghostly page-turner - FINANCIAL TIMES
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