Marvellously written short novella from Susan Hill - a family story as evocative, gripping and Gothic as her best-selling ghost story, The Woman in Black.
Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys awards, and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She is the author of 56 books. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989; it is also a major feature film. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler are currently being adapted for TV. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King's College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. Susan Hill was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. www.susan-hill.com
A moving, evocative and rewarding novel
*The Times*
A brilliantly eerie little tale...with a very adroitly handled
contemporary theme: the misery memoir
*Scotland on Sunday*
The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of
truth, mental health and memory... Ideas about wasted lives, about
grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about
rank injustice are all here in a novel of great structural and
stylistic control
*Guardian*
Magnificent...It is all done so well, so wisely, that this short
book is richly satisfying...it is a little masterpiece
*Daily Telegraph*
Captivating... There is, from the start, a highly charged
atmosphere of anxiety and ambiguity...the suspense and mystery work
perfectly, and for this Hill's economy is exactly what is
needed
*Financial Times*
Short, beautifully crafted and gripping... Hill's astute and
skilful probing of motives and the ambiguities of appearances
extends the reach of the novel much wider
*Sunday Times*
This enigmatic novella tracks the full impact of Frank's book,
probing notions of guilt and truth, and deftly capturing those
family bonds that warp even as they appear to nurture
*Daily Mail*
Compelling, cut through with sloe-sharp details as Hill exhibits
complete mastery of the tools at her disposal... It is a moving,
evocative and rewarding novel
*The Times*
Beautiful, clean prose...[an] absorbing story
*Literary Review*
A clever novel that's timeless in its tension-building
storytelling
*Good Housekeeping*
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