The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas |Â Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle,Â NPR,

Slade House: A Novel

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas |Â Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle,Â NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post,Â BookPage, andÂ Kirkus Reviews

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.

Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, youâ€™ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you wonâ€™t want to leave. Later, youâ€™ll find that you canâ€™t. Every nine years, the houseâ€™s residentsâ€”an odd brother and sisterâ€”extend a unique invitation to someone whoâ€™s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, itâ€™s already too late. . . .

Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house storyâ€”as only David Mitchell could imagine it.

Praise for Slade House

â€œA fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician.â€â€”The Washington Post

â€œEntertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.â€â€”Chicago Tribune

â€œA ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jacksonâ€™s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen Kingâ€™s The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicle

â€œLike Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.â€â€”The Guardian (U.K.)

â€œAÂ haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them.â€â€”Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

â€œTightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . .Â the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.â€â€”The Huffington Post

Country	USA
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Slade House: A Novel

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