Book description
“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."–…
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2 authors picked The September House as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I love the combination of haunted house with family drama and Margaret was a great character to follow. She had it rough even before September House and it was interesting to see how her old life had prepared her for the new one.
And the pranksters! How horrible! How much I love them all! Very Gashlycrumb Tinies meets a sketch from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I love a ghost story, and when the ghosts are good enough to feel like fully fledged characters in their own right... perfection!
I have lived in many haunted places, one of them a 1906 Victorian, which I painstakingly restored, so I couldn’t resist acquiring this novel for my collection. Orlando’s gripping style pulled me into the horror and love of living in places that are sometimes scary. Add to this the family mystery, and voila: MAGIC.
It brought me back to the days of straddling the explainable and otherworldly, particularly when my girls were reluctant to go to bed because they were too tired to play with the little girl in the closet. I literally could not stop reading this one. And…
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