The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - ISBN: 9780099562979
Paperback
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows.

The Woman in Black

  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    19 January 2012

Summary

Published to tie-in with major new film adaptation starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe.Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begin…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099562979
ISBN-10:0099562979
Author:Susan Hill
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Edition:Film Tie-In
Release Date:19 January 2012
Weight:149g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Series:Vintage Books
What They're Saying

Critics Review

No one chills the heart like Susan Hill * Daily Telegraph *An excellent ghost story… magnificently eerie… compulsive reading * Evening Standard *A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine * Guardian *Heartstoppingly chilling * Daily Express *Terrifying… creepy classic * Daily Mail *

About The Author

Susan Hill

SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London’s West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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