Slade House

Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly ri... (more)

Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you{u2019}ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won{u2019}t want to leave. Later, you{u2019}ll find that you can{u2019}t. Every nine years, the house{u2019}s residents{u2014}an odd brother and sister{u2014}extend a unique invitation to someone who{u2019}s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it{u2019}s already too late. . . . Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story{u2014}as only David Mitchell could imagine it. (less)

"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly r... (more)

"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it's already too late" -- (less)