The Girl On The Landing: ‘Part love story, part psychological thriller', from the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

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Orion, Feb 19, 2009 - Fiction - 320 pages

'The best book of the year... truly astonishing' Sunday Express
'An exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller' Mail on Sunday
'Surprising and suspenseful' Observer

A GHOST STORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER AND A TALE OF LOVE REDISCOVERED, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited.

But then Michael begins to change.

It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last.

But who - or what - is changing Michael?

 

Contents

The Picture
Chapter 2 There
Chapter 3MrPatels Membership Application
Serendipozan
Chapter 6Strangers ona Train
Chapter Chapter 12 Their Brains AreNot 13Rule Britannia Chapter 14While theCats Away Chapter 15Her Black Gaze MadeMe Shudder inMy Sleep
Chapter 17 Forgotten butNot Gone
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About the author (2009)

Paul Torday burst on to the literary scene in 2007 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate international bestseller that has been translated into 28 languages and has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt. His subsequent novels, THE IRRESISTIBLE INHERITANCE OF WILBERFORCE, THE GIRL ON THE LANDING, THE HOPELESS LIFE OF CHARLIE SUMMERS, MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, THE LEGACY OF HARTLEPOOL HALL and LIGHT SHINING IN THE FOREST, were all published to great critical acclaim. He was married with two sons by a previous marriage, had two stepsons, and lived close to the River North Tyne. He died at home in December 2013.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Girl On The Landing: ‘Part love story, part psychological thriller', from the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
AuthorPaul Torday
PublisherOrion, 2009
ISBN0297855832, 9780297855835
Length320 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Fiction / Ghost
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy
Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
  
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