This book is an exquisite rarity: a faerie book that is at the same time marvellously visual and imaginative, but works equally well as a study of human trauma; a love story (of sorts); a family drama; a wholly engaging mystery. I found it in my to-read pile (which this year has been sadly neglected) and started it with no great expectation, although by the end of the third page I was not only hooked, but beginning to think that this might be the best book I'd read all year. Anyone who knows me knows how often I find myself disappointed by the payoff of a novel. This one maintained the tension right till the end - another rarity -never veering into over-exposition or self-indulgence. And the faeries are both nicely original and authentically folkloric: creepy, pagan, detailed, entrancing. I loved it, and I sense that I'll be following this author's future work with excitement and admiration. She's been places. She knows things. Follow her; you'll know them, too.
Selected by our December Guest Editor, Joanne Harris
| Primary Genre | Fantasy |
'This might be the best book I've read all year' JOANNE HARRIS 'A glorious, pitch-black fairytale of a book' KIRSTY LOGAN, author of Things We Say in the Dark 'A feast of storytelling...lingers long after the last morsel's been consumed' SAM LLOYD, author of The Memory Wood 'Brutal and beguiling story of love and revenge' LUCIE McKNIGHT HARDY, author of Water Shall Refuse Them 'Lascivious and bloody' JAMES LOVEGROVE in the Financial Times Everyone knew bestselling novelist Cassandra Tipp had twice got away with murder. Even her family were convinced of her guilt. So when she disappears, leaving only a long letter behind, they can but suspect that her conscience finally killed her. But the letter is not what anyone expected. It tells two chilling, darkly disturbing stories. One is a story of children lost to the woods, of husbands made from twigs and leaves and feathers and bones . . . The other is the story of a little girl trying to make sense of a damaged life lived in the shadows . . . But which story is true? Unsettling yet unputdownable, You Let Me In dares to cross the boundary between reality and somewhere else entirely . . . ________________________ What readers are saying... 'I loved this book, was blown away by it' 'I would certainly read more from this author' 'Unexpected, thrilling and darkly twisted' 'I found myself thinking about it for several days afterwards' 'The writing was just sensational' 'An impressive debut' 'I would love to see Guillermo del Toro make a movie based on this story'
You Let Me In features in the following genres: Fantasy, Fiction
You Let Me In is available in Paperback, Hardback
You Let Me In was written by Camilla Bruce and published by Bantam Press an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
You Let Me In has 254 pages
