The Loney: 'Full of unnerving terror . . . amazing' Stephen King

· Hachette UK
3.6
34 reviews
Ebook
368
Pages

About this ebook

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD.
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016.

A brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror - 'The Loney is not just good, it's great. It's an amazing piece of fiction' Stephen King

Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector.

Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure.

In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. And they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end . . .

Many years on, Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's care.

But then the child's body is found.

And the Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end.

'This is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' Observer

'A masterful excursion into terror' The Sunday Times

Ratings and reviews

3.6
34 reviews
Ian Gates
December 19, 2017
A book that's not going to do a lot for tourism on a particular section of the Lancashire coast where the weather is awful and the .backward and threatening. Owes a certain debt to several 1970s horror films such as Straw Dogs and particularly the Wicker Man with elements of folk horror and the strong role of faith, more specifically Catholism. However the central mystery is never adequately explained. Consequently it's a novel in which the whole is less than the sum of the parts.
1 person found this review helpful
Paul Roberts
July 26, 2017
To say i hated the book would be wrong but it certainly was not what i expected. The location for the book was ideal given the story but for much of the book i was quite bored and felt the pacing was very slow up until the end few chapters.
1 person found this review helpful
Patricia Crust
October 28, 2016
It was a good read, stranger in places and had an unusual ending. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good read., and who like odd ending's, something you wouldn't think how ,you could see it ending after reading most of the story you get an idea, this ending Stray's totally away from that.

About the author

Andrew Michael Hurley has lived in Manchester and London, and is now based in Lancashire, where he teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. He has had two collections of short stories published by Lime Tree Press. The Loney is his first novel - it was first published in October 2014 by Tartarus Press, a tiny independent publisher based in Yorkshire, as a 300-copy limited-edition.

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