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A Good House for Children : A Novel
A Good House for Children : A Novel
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Author(s): Collins, Kate
ISBN No.: 9780063291034
Pages: 336
Year: 202407
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 26.21
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"A feminist gothic that evokes Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House." -- New York Times Book Review "The dream house in the country is a fictional standard for illuminating the realities of women's domestic life; when the dream turns to nightmare, it's the perfect setting for horror. Atmospheric and beautifully written, A Good House for Children builds slowly but surely into a terrifying ghost story." -- Guardian "[Will] go down a treat for all of those (numerous) readers with tastes straddling what passes for "literary fiction" and good old, deeply satisfying horror. It has a little bit of all things not very nice that make up a page-turning popular novel, without resorting to moral simplicity or predictability. It's a highly readable book that still inspires more questions than it answers - which is impressive, for being so rare.More than once, I was put in mind of The Turn of the Screw." -- Irish Times "Collins skillfully intercuts the two storylines, making clever use of structure to maximize tension, resonance, and fright, while the familiar setup fools readers into thinking they know what path the plot will follow.


A moody, evocative, close-third narrative underscores the keenly rendered characters' mounting distress and claustrophobia. A harrowing slow burn with feminist undertones." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An engrossing read. A neat mix of psychological thriller and old-fashioned haunted house drama." -- Daily Mail (London) "Utterly compelling, creepy and dark." -- Irish Examiner "That this is Collins's debut is astonishing. Her writing is well-crafted and takes us from the real to surreal and back again with ease. Keep the lights on and ignore any odd noises you hear.


" -- Irish Independent "Fans of gothic fiction will appreciate this tale reminiscent of Ruth Ware's Turn of the Key." -- Booklist A stunning debut. A terrifying and propulsive gothic story with so much to say about parenthood, privilege and the psychological burden of motherhood. I was utterly mesmerised by it and found it so unsettling that I had to keep the lights on! . Incredibly accomplished and original." -- Katherine Faulkner, author of Greenwich Park "Collins intertwines the tales of Orla and Lydia, who have each lived in the Reeve: a house subject to haunting, but also a place where boundaries blur . between different times, but also of the sense of reality and the other, and ultimately, the edge of sanity itself. A beautifully written, creepy tale reminiscent of Shirley Jackson.


" -- Alison Littlewood, author of A Cold Season "Equally terrifying and brilliant, Kate Collins' claustrophobic gothic tale of motherhood, sacrifice, and loss, captured my attention from eerie beginning to unforgettable end---a read-in-one-sitting triumph of storytelling." -- Ashley Tate, author of Twenty-Seven Minutes.


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