
“A ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a pitch-perfect piece of writing. . . . As with Shirley Jackson’s work or Sarah Waters’s masterpiece Affinity , in Stonex’s hands the unspoken, unexamined, unseen world we can call the supernatural, a world fed by repression and lies, becomes terrifyingly tangible.”
— The Guardian (London)
“Transported me effortlessly…Haunting, harrowing and heartbreaking, this is a novel that will stay with you.”
— Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
The Lamplighters
Year
2021
Pages
352
Praise
“A ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a pitch-perfect piece of writing. . . . As with Shirley Jackson’s work or Sarah Waters’s masterpiece Affinity , in Stonex’s hands the unspoken, unexamined, unseen world we can call the supernatural, a world fed by repression and lies, becomes terrifyingly tangible.”
— The Guardian (London)
“Transported me effortlessly…Haunting, harrowing and heartbreaking, this is a novel that will stay with you.”
— Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
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