Sugar Hall

Sugar Hall
Tiffany Murray
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Hardback
h198 x 126mm - 198pg
5 May 2014 UK
9781781721438
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Easter 1955. As Britain waits for a hanging, Dieter Sugar finds a boy in the red gardens of Sugar Hall: a boy who wears a silver collar. In the great house, Dieter's mother, Lilia, scrapes the rust from the locks and the ice from the windows and battles with her own ghosts. But there are pasts hiding with the moths and rats that she cannot remove so easily. Sugar Hall holds a secret: a history that has been buried but not forgotten. Based on the haunting stories of Littledean Hall in the Forest of Dean, this is a superbly chilling ghost story from Tiffany Murray.
'A beautiful and haunting book. Tiffany Murray is a wonderful storyteller.' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit 'As darkly tantalising as any enchanted forest, a novel that sees a writer with the lightest of touches take on the deepest of our fears - spellbinding.' Tim Butcher, author of The Trigger 'Sugar Hall is not just a brilliantly effective ghost story. It also pries open a window on to a vanished decade, exploring the long consequences of old sins and the suffering of the exile, the refugee and the powerless. Chillingly empathetic, it's a book that cries out to be read again - and again.' Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Scent of Death 'A shiveringly good read, Sugar Hall reminds me of the days when I used to read under the bedcovers with a torch, because I simply had to find out what happened next.'Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man "Tiffany Murray isn't quite like anyone else writing today. She's a mad geneticist of a writer, specialising in taking narrative elements we think we know and splicing them with the unexpected, giving us Emily Bronte the rock chick (Diamond Star Halo) or Stella Gibbons with a louchely 70s drug habit (Happy Accidents). Sugar Hall lingers in the mind like a half-remembered nightmare and confirms Murray's as an intensely British talent." Patrick Gale (author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man) 'Sugar Hall is a dark tale brightly told, beautifully written and thoroughly unsettling.' Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers and A Heart Bent Out of Shape 'Tender, troubling and telling, Sugar Hall is a box of delights. With prose delicate as moth scales, Tiffany Murray has written her best book to date, a simply delicious and creepy read,' Jon Gower
Tiffany grew up in haunted houses in Scotland, Wales and Herefordshire. Her novels Diamond Star Halo and Happy Accidents were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the London Book Award, and Diamond Star Halo was a Guardian book of the year. Her work has drawn comparisons to Stella Gibbons and Dodie Smith. Tiffany has been a Hay Festival International Writing Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and her academic posts have included Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of South Wales.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781781721438
Published: 5 May 2014
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seren
Publisher: Poetry Wales Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Pages: 198
Dewey: 823.92

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