The Barred Window

Oct 8, 2024 9:17 PM

Author:Andrew Taylor

The Barred Window

48 years in the same house, in the same room, with the same barred windows

The Barred Windowsis a psychological thriller packed with twists and turns from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London

It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued.

With the death of his controlling mother, Thomas finally becomes master of his own house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidante, comes to live with him Thomas is overjoyed - Esmond always looks after him . . .

But is Esmond all that he seems? And why is he so concerned that Alice wants to come home too? Darling Alice, whom neither have seen since that fateful night twenty-six years ago.

Reviews

Prepare to be sucked in and swept along by this chilling white-water rapid of a thriller

—— Cosmopolitan

By turns playful and poignant, sexy and sinister, Hill's darkly comedic portrait of a woman scorned packs a captivating surprise

—— Booklist

A new voice in psychological suspense fiction

—— Daily Mail

A sensational new addition to the psychological thriller shelves

—— Daily Record

A thrilling tale

—— The Lady

Popular fiction at its best

—— The Washington Post

This is a book full of surprising discoveries and reversals, but also a fascinating portrait of a society closer to fracture than anyone is prepared to admit...One of the novel's strength's is that it values intelligence, and the process of analytic thought as much as it does the sensational moments

—— Roz Kaveney , Independent

Pearl's is an ambitious project; literary criticism, biography, reconstruction, reportage and fiction, all in one volume...Where else could you find all this and disquisitions on the slave trade, voter fraud in local elections and the workings of the US postal system? And the truth about Edgar Allan Poe's death?

—— Nicola Smyth , Independent on Sunday

Fascinating reading

—— The Times

This is a story not for people who like reading novels but for the much larger number who like solving puzzles

—— Sunday Telegraph

Bruen's tightly coiled prose strikes like a piss-soaked rattler.

—— Capital

Sharp, punch and unsettling, Priest is a masterpiece.

—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph

... An intensely dark maelstrom ... excellent.

—— www.marymartin.com.au

Bruen should be valued as one of the most challenging and memorable writers in the genre at the moment.

—— www.reviewingtheevidence.com

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