Beautiful hardback edition of the bestselling classic ghost story, now a major film
Beautiful hardback edition of the bestselling classic ghost story, soon to be a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Beautiful hardback edition of the bestselling classic ghost story, now a major film
Beautiful hardback edition of the bestselling classic ghost story, soon to be a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe.
First published in 1983, The Woman in Black is Susan Hill's best-loved novel, and the basis for the UK's second longest ever running stage play, and a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, travels to a remote village to put the affairs of a recently deceased client, Alice Drablow in order. As he works alone in her isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover disturbing secrets - and his unease grows when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed in black. The locals are strangely unwilling to talk about the unsettling occurrence, and Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
Susan Hill is the winner of numerous literary prizes including the Somerset Maugham and Whitbread Awards. Her literary memoir, Howards End is on the Landing and the ghost stories The Man in the Picture and The Small Hand are published by Profile, and she is the author of a highly successful crime series (Chatto & Windus). The Woman in Black has been running in the West End for twenty years.
Susan Hill is the winner of numerous literary prizes including the Somerset Maugham and Whitbread Awards. Her literary memoir, Howards End is on the Landing and the ghost stories The Man in the Picture and The Small Hand are published by Profile, and she is the author of a highly successful crime series (Chatto and Windus). The Woman in Black has been running in the West End for twenty years.
'What I heard next chilled and horrified me ... The noise of the pony trap grew fainter and then stopped abruptly and away on the marsh was a curious draining, sucking, churning sound, which went on, together with the shrill neighing and whinnying of a horse in panic, and then I heard another cry, a shout, a terrified sobbing ...'
Beautiful hardback edition of the bestselling classic ghost story, soon to be a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe. First published in 1983, The Woman in Black is Susan Hill's best-loved novel, and the basis for the UK's second longest ever running stage play, and a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, travels to a remote village to put the affairs of a recently deceased client, Alice Drablow in order. As he works alone in her isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover disturbing secrets - and his unease grows when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed in black. The locals are strangely unwilling to talk about the unsettling occurrence, and Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
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