Books Books
Series: Welsh Gothic
Category: Crime and Thrillers, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 272
ISBN: 9781781722206
Publication date: October 15, 2014
Price: £9.99
Series: Welsh Gothic
Category: Crime and Thrillers, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 272
ISBN: 9781781721445
Publication date: October 15, 2014
Price: £7.99
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“Sugar Hall glints and glimmers” – David Mitchell, author of New York Times bestseller The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas.
Easter 1955. As Britain waits for a hanging, Dieter Sugar finds a boy in the red gardens of Sugar Hall: a boy who wears a silver collar. In the great house, Dieter’s mother, Lilia, scrapes the rust from the locks, the ice from the windows and battles with her own ghosts. But there are pasts hiding with the moths and rats that Lilia cannot remove so easily. Sugar Hall holds a secret: a history that has been buried but not forgotten.
Based on the haunting stories of Littledean Hall in the Forest of Dean, this is a superbly spine tingling tale, and the perfect accompaniment for dark nights.
Tiffany Murray
Tiffany Murray’s writing has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Sunday Times Style, GQ, Independent on Sunday and featured on BBC Radio 4. Her memoir My Family and Other Rock Stars was Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week book of the week, and Observer book of the day. Her novels, Diamond Star Halo, Happy Accidents and Sugar Hall, have variously been shortlisted for the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize and received the Roger Deakin Award for nature writing. Tiffany has been a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow, a Fulbright scholar, a Senior Lecturer, and she runs Hay Festival’s Writers at Work program. Her drama set in Iceland; Hulda’s Café, is available on BBC Sounds. The story of Sugar Hall is has haunted her since she was a child.
‘A mysterious, complex and riveting novel, poised between this world and the next.’
New Welsh Review
‘Tender, troubling and telling, Sugar Hall is a box of delights. With prose delicate as moth scales, Tiffany Murray has written her best book to date, a simply delicious and creepy read.’
Jon Gower
‘Sugar Hall is a dark tale brightly told, beautifully written and thoroughly unsettling.’
Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers and A Heart Bent Out of Shape
‘As darkly tantalising as any enchanted forest, a novel that sees a writer with the lightest of touches take on the deepest of our fears – spellbinding.’
Tim Butcher, author of The Trigger
‘Tiffany Murray isn’t quite like anyone else writing today. She’s a mad geneticist of a writer, specialising in taking narrative elements we think we know and splicing them with the unexpected, giving us Emily Brontë the rock chick (Diamond Star Halo) or Stella Gibbons with a louchely 70s drug habit (Happy Accidents). Sugar Hall lingers in the mind like a half-remembered nightmare and confirms Murray’s as an intensely British talent.’
Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man.
‘A shiveringly good read, Sugar Hall reminds me of the days when I used to read under the bedcovers with a torch, because I simply had to find out what happened next.’
Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man
‘Sugar Hall is not just a brilliantly effective ghost story. It also pries open a window on to a vanished decade, exploring the long consequences of old sins and the suffering of the exile, the refugee and the powerless. Chillingly empathetic, it’s a book that cries out to be read again – and again.’
Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Scent of Death
‘A beautiful and haunting book. Tiffany Murray is a wonderful storyteller.’
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit
