by Paul Torday, Luca Fusari
This one appeared in the post, not quite sure who sent it to me. Wouldn't have picked it up otherwise.This is a really good book. Michael, the main character, sees a picture of a girl on a landing, but nothing much is happening, a marriage that isn't going wrong but isn't going anywhere. The image o...
Clever - that is to say, I don't like ghost stories (as I really don't believe in them), but I love, plausible, scary stories that have rational reasons for a 'ghost's' existence in someone else's life.
Reading Paul Torday's novel "The Girl on the Landing" makes one want to paraphrase Joseph Heller's quote from "Catch 22" to read: "Just because you're [being treated for] paranoid [schizophrenia], doesn't mean they aren't really after you". The plot here is dark, fascinating and gives one food for t...