The House
The BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick
by Simon Lelic
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Pub Date Aug 17 2017 | Archive Date Nov 01 2017
Penguin Books (UK) | Penguin
Description
*THE OBSERVER THRILLER BOOK OF THE MONTH*
*A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK*
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The perfect couple. The perfect house.
. . . The perfect crime.
Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the house a year ago. It seemed like their dream home: tons of space, the perfect location, and a friendly owner who wanted a young couple to have it.
So when they made a grisly discovery in the attic, Jack and Syd chose to ignore it. That was a mistake.
Because someone has just been murdered outside their back door.
AND NOW THE POLICE ARE WATCHING THEM.
This thriller will hook you and not let you go. Perfect for fans of He Said / She Said, and The Couple Next Door
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What authors and readers are saying:
'DELICIOUSLY DARK AND CLEVER WITH A SATISFYING TWIST. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED' Mark Edwards
'AN INTRICATE AND POWERFUL THRILLER' Tana French
'HUGELY GRIPPING AND SPOOKY AS HELL' Mark Billingham
'TAUGHT, TENSE AND TERRIFYING, I LOVED IT' Sharon Bolton
'O.M.G . I just devoured this gem...Perfect execution of a psychological thriller right here.' Reader review
'A brilliantly tense and shocking thriller. I literally couldn't put it down!' Nuala Ellwood, author of My Sister's Bones
'This terrifying thriller sent shivers through me' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife
'A bundle of creepy chills, perfectly timed for Halloween . . . Read it' Thriller of the Month, The Observer
'Deeply creepy . . . This clever, twisting plot, told in convincing voices, will haunt you in the very best way' The Sunday Mirror'
An intriguing and suspenseful read' Cath Staincliffe
'Brilliantly dark and gripping...Plays on the fundamental fear that the building blocks of our existence - home, relationships, family - may not be as secure as we like to think' Thomas Mogford
'Clearly influenced by the great Alfred Hitchcock, this is not so much a ghost story as an homage to the master's expert touch with dread' Daily Mail
'Creepy and totally gripping. A real page-turner. I loved it' Claire McGowan
Advance Praise
'Lelic can plot like a demon' - Guardian
'Lelic can plot like a demon' - Guardian
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780241296554 |
| PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 400 |
Featured Reviews
Heather A, Reviewer
Part murder-mystery, part domestic thriller, The House is a purely unique thrill ride, of which I enjoyed every page. Written in a conversational style, this novel's structure and narrative voice is fresh and new – the chapters alternate between our two unreliable narrators and protagonists, Jack and Syd, as they try to figure out what on earth is happening in their new house. The style is evocative of a kind of 'journalistic conversation' between the two, a style unlike anything I've experienced before and it works well, effectively portraying the vague sense of unease at the beginning of the novel, the paranoia and violence in the middle, and finally through to the explosive climax of which you won't see coming. As tense as it is clever, The House is a wonderfully-crafted, clever and heart-wrenching novel, which will leave your heart racing.
Pauly A, Reviewer
I don’t remember being genuinely scared reading a book since 1977 (Stephen King’s The Shining), but I was while I was reading this novel. It’s a really good story, brilliantly written, but best of all it’s really, really clever; a proper thriller.
The intelligent writing style, and the atmosphere of quiet menace it creates, made me get so emotionally involved that I felt that if I stopped reading I would be leaving the characters there, suspended in peril, until I came back and continued unravelling the plot with/for them.
I absolutely loved this book; it was exciting, entertaining, and thoroughly gripping to the end.
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