The Girl On The Landing

Author Paul Torday
Narrator Clare Wille, David Monteath
Publisher Orion
Run Time 9 hours and 16 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Ghosts and poltergeists, Horror and supernatural fiction, Mind, body, spirit, Modern and contemporary fiction, Psychological thriller, Speculative fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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What to expect

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her.

But then Michael begins to change. It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last. But who - or what - is changing Michael ...?

Read by David Monteath and Clare Wille

(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group

Critics Review

The finale is terrifying, harking back to old-fashioned ghost stories, but with a modern, plausible twist – it stood the hairs of my arms on end
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Torday skilfully maintains a knife-edge tension… an original and satisfying thriller
DAILY MAIL
A gently comic novel about schizophrenia sounds like the worst idea ever, but Torday pulls it off magnificently.. a clever, gripping novel
THE TIMES
Paul Torday’s third and extremely accomplished novel.. is another tour de force from one of our best emerging writers
DAILY EXPRESS
Compelling and totally captivating
BELLA
His prose remains anything but safe. It is supple, skilful and literary… this is a fabulously good yarn
OBSERVER
The author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN impresses again with this absorbing tale of identity
PSYCHOLOGIES
A fantastically gripping and chilling novel
BEST
A compulsively readable psychological thriller… Torday’s ability to keep the reader in the grip of a nightmare is exceptional
METRO
Torday is a gifted writer, I loved it
THE BOOKSELLER
Told by husband and wife, this intriguing story of the impact of ghostly visitors is an unusual exploration of mental illness
CHOICE
What starts as a tale of domestic disharmony evolves into a gripping, ghostly page-turner
FINANCIAL TIMES

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