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Rooms

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After a number of highly acclaimed New York Times bestsellers, including the Delirium trilogy and the standalone novels Before I Fall and Panic, Lauren Oliver returns with a spellbinding tale that confirms her place as one of our finest storytellers.

Fueled by the same inspired feel for plot and character that drew readers to Oliver's earlier works, Rooms is a mesmerizing and suspenseful story of guilt, love, and family secrets.Estranged patriarch Richard Walker has died, leaving behind a country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime.

His alienated familybitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minnahave arrived for their inheritance.But the Walkers are not alone.

Alice and Sandra, two long-dead and restless ghosts, linger within the house's claustrophobic walls, bound eternally to its physical structure.

Jostling for space and memory, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives.

Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itselfin the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a lightbulb.The living and dead are haunted by painful truths that surface with explosive force.

When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collidewith cataclysmic results.

Elegantly constructed and brilliantly paced, Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama that is as haunting as it is resonant.

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£23.50
Product Details
Ecco
0062223216 / 9780062223210
eBook (EPUB)
23/09/2014
English
320 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 228945, Points 12.00, Book Level 5.50,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More