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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
At 30, Londoner Joanna still spends her free time with her Oxford college friends, now with burgeoning careers and all on the cusp of real adulthood. Lucas, Joanna's closest friend and prolonged crush, inherits Stoneborough Manor, a huge and imposing house in the Cotswold countryside filled with priceless art, where all the college friends are to spend every weekend together. The first visit, on New Year's Eve, doesn't start well, as the Londoners get lost. To Joanna, the manor has a threatening and unsettling aura, and indeed, the big, dark, vaguely confusing house with its secrets and disappointments works well as an allegory for moving into the responsibilities and fears of growing up. Joanna and her friends proceed to deal with the unknown, some well, others destructively. A focus on the shifting relationships and loyalties doesn't leave much room for plot, but Joanna's voice is engaging, and Londoner Whitehouse, making her debut, manages to generate a lot of interest in the somewhat flat Four Weddings and a Funeral-esque ensemble: she gets the insecurities, pedigrees and Cotswold locale spot on. Unfortunately, this promising first effort features a truncated ending that is less evocative than jarring. (June)
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Advance praise for The House at Midnight
“The House at Midnight is a stunning piece of modern gothic. Gripping, accomplished, and ultimately mesmerizing, it represents the arrival of a major literary talent.”
–John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things
“A book that holds you, and an atmosphere which has you in thrall.”
–Susan Hill, author of The Pure in Heart
“Gripping and accomplished.”
–Barbara Trapido, author of Frankie & Stankie
“A fine piece of high gothic, as dark and delicious as bitter chocolate, and also a moving lament for the loss of youth. Whitehouse is an English middle-class Donna Tartt, skillfully building layers of menace. I was spellbound.”
–Kate Saunders, author of The Little Secret
“Atmospheric and compelling–an impressive debut.”
–Joanna Briscoe, author of Sleep with Me
“An exciting, romantic, gripping story of secrets and suspense–at once modern and classic in its form and content. I predict a big hit!”
–Lesley Glaister, author of Losing It
See all Editorial Reviews
At 30, Londoner Joanna still spends her free time with her Oxford college friends, now with burgeoning careers and all on the cusp of real adulthood. Lucas, Joanna's closest friend and prolonged crush, inherits Stoneborough Manor, a huge and imposing house in the Cotswold countryside filled with priceless art, where all the college friends are to spend every weekend together. The first visit, on New Year's Eve, doesn't start well, as the Londoners get lost. To Joanna, the manor has a threatening and unsettling aura, and indeed, the big, dark, vaguely confusing house with its secrets and disappointments works well as an allegory for moving into the responsibilities and fears of growing up. Joanna and her friends proceed to deal with the unknown, some well, others destructively. A focus on the shifting relationships and loyalties doesn't leave much room for plot, but Joanna's voice is engaging, and Londoner Whitehouse, making her debut, manages to generate a lot of interest in the somewhat flat Four Weddings and a Funeral-esque ensemble: she gets the insecurities, pedigrees and Cotswold locale spot on. Unfortunately, this promising first effort features a truncated ending that is less evocative than jarring. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
Advance praise for The House at Midnight
“The House at Midnight is a stunning piece of modern gothic. Gripping, accomplished, and ultimately mesmerizing, it represents the arrival of a major literary talent.”
–John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things
“A book that holds you, and an atmosphere which has you in thrall.”
–Susan Hill, author of The Pure in Heart
“Gripping and accomplished.”
–Barbara Trapido, author of Frankie & Stankie
“A fine piece of high gothic, as dark and delicious as bitter chocolate, and also a moving lament for the loss of youth. Whitehouse is an English middle-class Donna Tartt, skillfully building layers of menace. I was spellbound.”
–Kate Saunders, author of The Little Secret
“Atmospheric and compelling–an impressive debut.”
–Joanna Briscoe, author of Sleep with Me
“An exciting, romantic, gripping story of secrets and suspense–at once modern and classic in its form and content. I predict a big hit!”
–Lesley Glaister, author of Losing It
See all Editorial Reviews
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