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
‘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
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Reviews
Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within
Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister
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
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
Glasiter, along with Ruth Rendell, has almost cornered the market in horror stories set in the suburbs . . . but Glaister's work is more unsettling
Glaister's writing is extraordinary: her tales of scarcely imaginable horror jumbled up with everyday comforts give rise to shivery laughter
A perfect, black little tale
