The Woman in Black
$22.09
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
4 December 1998
Summary
‘Heartstoppingly chilling’ Daily Express
Read the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play.
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling dee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099288473 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099288478 |
| Author: | Susan Hill |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 1998 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
Haunting its readers for more than 40 years… Once read, it’s hard to forget the utter strangeness of The Woman in Black… For all its magnificent period detail, and its ability to immerse us in the dark, dank place it creates, it goes beyond its own story. It acts as a portal… Read it – Jeanette Winterson * The Times *Spine-tingling… [Hill] perfectly channels the atmosphere of Victorian ghost stories * i *
About The Author
Susan Hill
Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London’s West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
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