Doctor Sleep

Product Description Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor!'By the end of this book your fingers will be mere stubs of their former selves . . . King's inventiveness and skill show no signs of slacking: Doctor Sleep has all the virtues of his best work' - Margaret Atwood, New York TimesAn epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. ****************Following a childhood haunted by terrifying events at the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance has been drifting for decades.Finally, he settles into a job at a nursing home where he draws on his remnant 'shining' power to help people pass on.Then he meets Abra Stone, a young girl with the brightest 'shining' ever seen. But her gift is attracting a tribe of paranormals. They may look harmless, old and devoted to their Recreational Vehicles, but The True Knot live off the 'steam' that children like Abra produce.Now Dan must confront his old demons as he battles for Abra's soul and survival... Review King's own supplies of creative steam show little sign of being depleted. ― The Sunday Times A powerful sequel to The Shining ― Observer King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a melancholic beauty ― Guardian, Book of the Week By the end of this book your fingers will be mere stubs of their former selves...King's inventiveness and skill show no signs of slacking: Doctor Sleep has all the virtues of his best work ― Margaret Atwood, New York Times A gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt ― Financial Times King is a very remarkable and singular writer. He can catch dialogue, throw away an observation or mint a simile, sometimes, brilliantly...Storytelling is everything - and by golly does he know how to carry the reader. ― Observer Doctor Sleep is King expertly returning to the milieu of his most beloved novels, combining not just elements from the original Shining but themes and imagery familiar from King's books, including Carrie, Salem's Lot, Firestarter and It. It also has a structure King has often utilised before, with a group of essentially good people having to band against a gang of baddies but within this structure King works masterful variations, showing just with a brilliant storyteller he is. When King is on form, as he is in Doctor Sleep, he has no rivals for sheer page-turning suspense. It is as addictive as anything he has written: a triumph from the world's finest horror novelist. ― Sunday Express It's a gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt. ― Financial Times King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a melancholic beauty while avoiding spiritualist blather ― Guardian Doctor Sleep is a warm, entertaining novel by a man who is no longer the prisoner of his demons, but knows where to find them when he needs to call on them. ― Daily Telegraph Thirty-six years on from his horror classic, THE SHINING, Stephen King's sequel shows he still has plenty of creative steam. ― The Sunday Times King has written a sequel, the tale of what happened to little Danny when he grew up. Need one say more? It cannot fail...the best thing to emerge from King's glittering, warped imagination is of mundane, small-town America corrupted by hidden forces...you cannot but respect his ruthless expertise as a storyteller...even those of us who would never freely pick up a Stephen King must genuflect to a master. ― The Times Stephen King's frightscapes are among the most incredible in literature, yet one believes in them unquestioningly. ― Spectator Terrifying and, as always, brilliantly-crafted tale, you won't be left wanting. But you may be left scared. ― Sun A magnificent sequel to one of the finest horror yarns written....Brilliant. ― Daily Express highly anticipated sequel to his bestselling 1977 novel The Shining. ― Daily Express Sat