Author:A.K.Benedict
If you get out, you’d think you’d be one of the lucky ones. But you’re not. The house infects you.
There’s an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They’ve heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you’ll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming.
Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There’s a mystery there, and she’s going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there’s a presence in the house. One that wants her.
Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost.
Roth's best novel yet
—— London Review of BooksI had only to read the two opening sentences to realize that I was once again in the hands of a superbly endowed storyteller
—— New York Review of BooksFurther evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power - the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale - is superb
—— Washington PostHis prose is immaculate yet curiously plain and unostentatious, as natural as brething
—— Al AlvarezOne would have to look very hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and sexual innocence abroad
—— Jay Parini , New York TimesAn alert, witty, unpredictable novel which brings a sharp fresh eye to bear on English character and English compromises
—— ObserverMetroland is a delicious book, sharp and witty and observant
—— The ListenerOne of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read
—— Times Educational SupplementFlighty, playful… Barnes succeeds in vividly recreating teenage precociousness, particularly what it feels like to be a young male encountering love and sex
—— Los Angeles TimesA dazzling entertainer
—— New YorkerConsummately elegant
—— Sunday TimesHe writes perceptively about the shift from self-absorbed teenager to adult.
—— The TimesIf all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed and as funny as Metroland there would be no more talk of the death of the novel
—— New StatesmanIt's one of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read
—— Times Educational SupplementIrony and imagery are deployed with a finesse even Flaubert wouldn't wince at...consummately elegant
—— Sunday Times
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