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Book Synopsis''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?<
Trade Review
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 *
