Dolly: A Ghost Story
Author(s): Susan Hill
From the greatest living writer of ghost stories, here is a perfect chiller: a story of two damaged children filled with unease, the supernatural and horror. The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward, are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel housekeeper. At first the unpleasantness and petty meannesses appear simply spiteful, calculated to destroy Edward's equanimity. But when spoilt Leonora is not given the birthday present of a specific dolly that she wants, affairs inexorably take a much darker turn with terrifying, life-destroying consequences for everyone.
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"'Susan Hill is the grande dame of English supernatural fiction' (Financial Times) 'No one chills the heart like Susan Hill' (Daily Telegraph) 'Part of the fear she conjures up is a sense that this could happen to anyone' (Scotsman) 'An assuredly chilling ghost story, Dolly doesn't leave its questions unanswered. Damage is assumed, noted, but not forgiven, and as the story develops evil is passed through the generations like a stain' (Guardian)"
General Fields
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- : Profile Books Ltd
- : Profile Books Ltd
- : 31 August 2013
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : 192
- : Paperback
- : Susan Hill