Hardback -From 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent) comes a taut, spine-chilling, intricately woven, reality-warping short novel. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it's already too late". 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. "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.
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