Review
Torday is a gifted writer, I loved it (The Bookseller Alice O'Keefe )
It seems Paul Torday can do no wrong. The Girl on the Landing is his third book and destined to do as well as the other two. (Caroline Jowett DAILY EXPRESS )
The author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen impresses again with this absorbing tale of identity (PSYCHOLOGIES )
the finale is terrifying, harking back to old-fashioned ghost stories, but with a modern, plausible twist - it stood the hairs of my arms on end (Toby Clements DAILY TELEGRAPH )
Torday skilfully maintains a knife-edge tension... an original and satisfying thriller (Michael Arditti DAILY MAIL )
A gently comic novel about schizophrenia sounds like the worst idea ever, but Torday pulls it off magnificently.. a clever, gripping novel (John O'Connell THE TIMES )
Paul Torday's third and extremely accomplished novel.. is another tour de force from one of our best emerging writers (Virginia Blackburn DAILY EXPRESS )
compelling and totally captivating (BELLA )
Five stars (HOTSTARS )
his prose remains anything but safe. It is supple, skilful and literary... this is a fabulously good yarn. (Kate Kellaway THE OBSERVER )
It's good to see such a highly successful writer resist the urge to repeat the surefire winning formula... Torday will no doubt keep gaining readers and respect (Catherine Heaney IRISH TIMES )
Paul Torday seems to take pleasure in confounding expectation.. (he) clearly enjoys playfully probing the nature of what is possible (Clare Allan THE GUARDIAN )
From the author of the exquisite Salmon Fishing in the Yemen comes an equally exquisite tale (Henry Sutton DAILY MIRROR )
Torday gives a polemical twist that gives the novel a depth and a real seriousness (Tom Adair THE SCOTSMAN )
a compulsively readable psychological thriller... Torday's ability to keep the reader in the grip of a nightmare is exceptional (Tina Jackson METRO )
A fantastically gripping and chilling novel (BEST )
Told by husband and wife, this intriguing story of the impact of ghostly visitors is an unusual exploration of mental illness (CHOICE )
It seems Paul Torday can do no wrong... one of a new breed of British authors who cannot be ignored... A seductive page-turner (NEWS OF THE WORLD )
There is simplicity and enthusiasm to his style that perhaps explains his enormous popularity. And he is clearly on a roll. (Lucy Atkins SUNDAY TIMES )
this is an easy-reading page-turner that will find its way into many holiday-bags this summer (Jeremy Hazlehurst CITY A.M. )
What starts as a tale of domestic disharmony evolves into a gripping, ghostly page-turner (Melissa McClements FINANCIAL TIMES )
back to his best with this elegant ghost story-cum-thriller.. an absorbing yarn (Max Davidson MAIL ON SUNDAY )
It seems Paul Torday can do no wrong. The Girl on the Landing is his third book and destined to do as well as the other two. (Caroline Jowett DAILY EXPRESS )
The author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen impresses again with this absorbing tale of identity (PSYCHOLOGIES )
the finale is terrifying, harking back to old-fashioned ghost stories, but with a modern, plausible twist - it stood the hairs of my arms on end (Toby Clements DAILY TELEGRAPH )
Torday skilfully maintains a knife-edge tension... an original and satisfying thriller (Michael Arditti DAILY MAIL )
A gently comic novel about schizophrenia sounds like the worst idea ever, but Torday pulls it off magnificently.. a clever, gripping novel (John O'Connell THE TIMES )
Paul Torday's third and extremely accomplished novel.. is another tour de force from one of our best emerging writers (Virginia Blackburn DAILY EXPRESS )
compelling and totally captivating (BELLA )
Five stars (HOTSTARS )
his prose remains anything but safe. It is supple, skilful and literary... this is a fabulously good yarn. (Kate Kellaway THE OBSERVER )
It's good to see such a highly successful writer resist the urge to repeat the surefire winning formula... Torday will no doubt keep gaining readers and respect (Catherine Heaney IRISH TIMES )
Paul Torday seems to take pleasure in confounding expectation.. (he) clearly enjoys playfully probing the nature of what is possible (Clare Allan THE GUARDIAN )
From the author of the exquisite Salmon Fishing in the Yemen comes an equally exquisite tale (Henry Sutton DAILY MIRROR )
Torday gives a polemical twist that gives the novel a depth and a real seriousness (Tom Adair THE SCOTSMAN )
a compulsively readable psychological thriller... Torday's ability to keep the reader in the grip of a nightmare is exceptional (Tina Jackson METRO )
A fantastically gripping and chilling novel (BEST )
Told by husband and wife, this intriguing story of the impact of ghostly visitors is an unusual exploration of mental illness (CHOICE )
It seems Paul Torday can do no wrong... one of a new breed of British authors who cannot be ignored... A seductive page-turner (NEWS OF THE WORLD )
There is simplicity and enthusiasm to his style that perhaps explains his enormous popularity. And he is clearly on a roll. (Lucy Atkins SUNDAY TIMES )
this is an easy-reading page-turner that will find its way into many holiday-bags this summer (Jeremy Hazlehurst CITY A.M. )
What starts as a tale of domestic disharmony evolves into a gripping, ghostly page-turner (Melissa McClements FINANCIAL TIMES )
back to his best with this elegant ghost story-cum-thriller.. an absorbing yarn (Max Davidson MAIL ON SUNDAY )
Review
'The best book of the year...a truly astonishing take on what appears on the surface to be mental illness and turns out to be something far darker' -- Virginia Blackburn SUNDAY EXPRESS 'This is an exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller - which confounds your expectations as it tightens its grip.' -- John Koski YOU, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The story of Michael Gascoigne's strange affinity with the wilderness unravels slowly, tantalisingly...' GUARDIAN 'Torday carries off a surprising, suspenseful update of Stevenson in the 21st-century Jekyll-and-Hyde thriller.' OBSERVER 'Torday is clearly having fun' SUNDAY TIMES 'A highly unusual fusion of atmospheric ghost story and sensitive protrayal of mental illness' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
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