The Monsters of Templeton

Lauren Groff’s debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more … There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne’er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that. * Stephen King *THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book…Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore. * Lorrie Moore *Groff’s delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic. * Easy Living *This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of “monsters, murders, bastards and ne’er do-wells”. Yet Lauren Groff’s remarkable debut is not a horror at all…as Willie slays her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric social history, origin myth and literary biography… the true ‘monsters’ of Templeton are its secrets. * Metro *This has an opening to die for … a riveting read * Scotland on Sunday *humourous and magical * Sainsbury’s Magazine *Lauren Groff’s debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more. Willie is a funny, sexy, plucky heroine; her Mom–a once-upon-a-time hippie who’s gone Baptist but not square–is a hoot; her family history is a funhouse through which Willie must wander in order to find her father. Best of all is Templeton, a town that will remind readers of Ray Bradbury at his most magical. There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne’er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that. * Stephen King *

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.

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