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THE BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE READ TO BE BELIEVED
'Utterly brilliant, a genre-defying masterpiece'
'I've never read anything like this before'
'Singular, unsettling and unforgettable'
'A modern classic in the making'
'Monumental... One of those novels that reminds me why I read fiction in the first place'
'I'm just sad that I won't be able to read it for the first time again'
IN THE SUMMER OF 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella.
When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne's journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in
another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached.
As the students delve deeper into the house's secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne's
strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.
'Utterly brilliant, a genre-defying masterpiece'
'I've never read anything like this before'
'Singular, unsettling and unforgettable'
'A modern classic in the making'
'Monumental... One of those novels that reminds me why I read fiction in the first place'
'I'm just sad that I won't be able to read it for the first time again'
IN THE SUMMER OF 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella.
When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne's journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in
another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached.
As the students delve deeper into the house's secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne's
strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.
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Reviews
"I adored it. The Secret History meets The Haunting of Hill House... A beautifully crafted book - rich, thoughtful, terrifying. I can't wait for people to read it"
Nicholas Binge, author of Dissolution
"An immensely fun brew of magic, mystery and mushrooms... If this stuff is your jam, you'll love it"
Guardian
"Solace House is a sprawling, mind-bending, immersive mansion of a novel... This is a definite must read... and must re-read"
Cailean Steed, author of Home
"There is something inhabited about Maclean's books - a total commitment to the horror and the humour, the beauty and the beastliness. Solace House is a haunted house story as full of hope as it is terror. It's as if David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow and David Mitchell's Slade House had a grotesque offspring that's perpetually off its face on magic mushrooms."
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of Almost Life
"A heady collision of gothic horror and campus novel... Unsettling, cerebral and deeply addictive."
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