The Visitors
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The Visitors

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Visitors

About this book

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.

What becomes of a child who grows up without love?

Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John’s rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind—until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret.

Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side....

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter 1: In the Night — 1
  4. Chapter 2: Lunch with Judith
  5. Chapter 3: School
  6. Chapter 4: Dinner with John
  7. Chapter 5: Maid of the Mist
  8. Chapter 6: Morning
  9. Chapter 7: Marion’s walk
  10. Chapter 8: The Tree
  11. Chapter 9: House of Wax
  12. Chapter 10: A Warning
  13. Chapter 11: In the Night — 2
  14. Chapter 12: Neil
  15. Chapter 13: Shopping
  16. Chapter 14: Sally
  17. Chapter 15: Lauren Hargreaves
  18. Chapter 16: Noise From the Cellar
  19. Chapter 17: The Box
  20. Chapter 18: Brendan O’brian
  21. Chapter 19: Laundry
  22. Chapter 20: The Envelope
  23. Chapter 21: Teddy Bear
  24. Chapter 22: Hospital
  25. Chapter 23: Cleaning
  26. Chapter 24: Money
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Reading Group Guide
  29. About the Author
  30. Copyright

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Information

Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781982123543
Subtopic
Literature General
eBook ISBN
9781501164033

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