“When his elderly father suffers a stroke, Christopher Beale
returns to England. He has no home, no other family. Adrift, he answers an
advert for a live-in tutor for a teenage boy. The boy, Lawrence Lundy, possesses
the spirit of his father, a military pilot – missing, presumed dead. Unable to
accept that his father is gone, Lawrence keeps his presence alive, in the big
old house, in the overgrown garden.
His mother, Juliet Lundy, a fey, scatty widow living on her
nerves, keeps the boy at home, away from other children, away from the world. And
in the suffocating heat of a long summer, she too is infected by the madness of
her son. Christopher Beale becomes entangled in the strange household ...
enmeshed in the oddness of the boy and his fragile mother. Only by forcing the
boy to release the spirit of his father can there be any escape from the
haunting.”
The Waking that Kills
by Stephen Gregory, “a dark novel of possession”, is out from Solaris (£7.99).
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