The Children on the Hill
eBook - ePub

The Children on the Hill

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Children on the Hill

About this book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley's masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us. 1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Helen Hildreth is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Granā€”teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love.Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Irisā€”silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feralā€”does not behave like a normal girl.Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up ways to defeat them. Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere.2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She's determined to hunt it down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are realā€”and one of them is her very own sister.A haunting, vividly suspenseful page-turner from the "literary descendant of Shirley Jackson" (Chris Bohjalian, author of The Flight Attendant ), The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781982156695
eBook ISBN
9781982156701
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Women in Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. The Monster: August 15, 2019
  6. Vi: May 8, 1978
  7. Lizzy: August 19, 2019
  8. Vi: May 8, 1978
  9. Lizzy: August 19, 2019
  10. Vi: May 9, 1978
  11. Vi: June 2, 1978
  12. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  13. Vi: June 10, 1978
  14. Vi: June 12, 1978
  15. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  16. Vi: June 17, 1978
  17. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  18. Vi: June 18, 1978
  19. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  20. The Monster: August 20, 2019
  21. Vi: July 7, 1978
  22. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  23. Vi: July 19, 1978
  24. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  25. Vi: July 19, 1978
  26. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  27. Vi: July 20, 1978
  28. Lizzy: August 20, 2019
  29. Vi: July 24, 1978
  30. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  31. Vi: July 24, 1978
  32. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  33. Vi: July 27, 1978
  34. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  35. Vi: July 28, 1978
  36. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  37. The Monster: August 21, 2019
  38. Vi: July 28, 1978
  39. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  40. Vi: July 28, 1978
  41. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  42. Vi: July 28, 1978
  43. Lizzy: August 21, 2019
  44. Afterword
  45. Acknowledgments
  46. About the Author
  47. Copyright

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