The Death House
Toby’s life was perfectly normal… until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team of nurses....
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Toby’s life was perfectly normal… until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team of nurses. They’re looking for any sign of sickness. Any sign of their wards changing. Any sign that it’s time to take them to the sanatorium. No one returns from the sanatorium. Living in his memories of the past, Toby spends his days fighting his fear. But then a new arrival in the house shatters the fragile peace, and everything changes. Because everybody dies. It’s how you choose to live that counts.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781783298037 (1783298030)
ASIN: 1783298030
Publish date: 2015-09-01
Publisher: Titan Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
One of my pet hates is books which are misrepresented by their covers and blurbs. A book cover is a visual language. It tells the ideal reader THIS is the book they want to read; THIS is what their life has been missing. It tells them about the others books they've enjoyed and lets them know THIS bo...
This turned out to be nothing like I expected. In fact, it completely surpassed all of my initial expectations and I just couldn't put it down.Beautifully written and genuinely moving in places.Hmm... I appear to have something in my eye.......*sobs violently*...Don't look at me! I'm not crying! You...
Toby's life was perfectly normal . . . until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test.Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team of nurses. T...
Extremely well written, this book was told from the first-person by Toby and was narrated in the present tense, interspersed with narrative at the end of some of the chapters about the time before current events. I didn’t know what to expect from this when I picked it up, all I knew is that I’d be...
Publication Date: 26th Feb 2015 from Gollancz Source: Advance Reading Copy. Toby's life was perfectly normal... until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House: an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he,...