Slade House: A Novel

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas A Publishers Weekly Literary Fiction Top 10 Pick for Fall 2015   Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.   Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, youll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you wont want to leave. Later, youll find that you cant. Every nine years, the houses residents—an odd brother and sister—extend a unique invitation to someone whos different or lonely a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, its already too late.