Description
A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page
A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations - yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore.
On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women...
They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.
About the Author
Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Oxford by the river.
Reviews
Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King * Observer *
Sisters is a gothic masterpiece... Confirms Johnson as a profoundly inventive and masterful storyteller * i *
Surprising, gorgeously written and profoundly unsettling, Everything Under will sink into your bones and stay there -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction -- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
The stories Daisy Johnson tells are at once heart-rending and hair-raising. Her prose is elegantly emotional; her plotting would make Shirley Jackson, a master of upmarket horror, proud * Economist *
Everything Under is weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling. Daisy Johnson writes in a torrent of language as unrelenting and turbulent and dark as the river at the book's heart; dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted -- Celeste Ng, author Little Fires Everywhere
There are few writers as talented as Daisy. After reading Sisters, I binged on Fen and Everything Under and am now obsessed -- Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory
Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country... An astonishing stylist -- Max Porter, author of Shy
To read Daisy Johnson is to have that rare feeling of meeting an author you'll read for the rest of your life -- Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds, Singing
Book Information
ISBN 9781787335264
Author Daisy Johnson
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm * 25mm
