Trick or Treat

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781471912962

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Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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The perfect Halloween novel!

‘Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within’ Independent on Sunday

‘Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister’ Harper’s Bazaar

All Nell’s life, Olive Owen has lived next door but one. And all her life, Nell has hated her. Even at school Olive had sparkled indecently, turning heads. Nell has a son, her pleasure and her shame, though now she lives alone. Nell is sharp in all the places Olive is round.

When Wolfe moves into the house in between them, their quiet street is transformed. A lonely, spirited eight-year-old boy, he knocks on their doors at Halloween and invites them to his bonfire party. As the fireworks flare, he finds himself in the middle of an ancient conflict, grudges bared and burning with a fury he could never have imagined.

‘A perfect, black little tale’ Observer

Reviews

Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister
HARPER'S BAZAAR
A gothic tale of horror and neglect . . . Glaister is very good at creating an atmosphere of rank gloom, and her alternating structure gives her rich opportunities for dramatic tension, which she exploits brilliantly
GUARDIAN on LITTLE EGYPT
Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister . . . LITTLE EGYPT perfectly demonstrates why Glaister is the suspense writers' suspense writer. With LITTLE EGYPT, she is back on HONOUR THEY FATHER form. I still have that slow, sick, ache in the pit of my stomach to prove it
Sam Baker, HARPER'S BAZAAR on LITTLE EGYPT
Glasiter, along with Ruth Rendell, has almost cornered the market in horror stories set in the suburbs . . . but Glaister's work is more unsettling
THE TIMES
Glaister's writing is extraordinary: her tales of scarcely imaginable horror jumbled up with everyday comforts give rise to shivery laughter
SUNDAY TIMES
A perfect, black little tale
OBSERVER