{"product_id":"platform-seven-1","title":"Platform Seven","description":"Review\n\nHighly literary, by turns tragic and redemptive and gloriously strange, it's a wonderful book: both a warning and a well-crafted, pacy arc of cause-and-effect., Financial Times\n\nMalign presences stalk this tale and the Apple Tree Yard author goes on to unravel a scarily plausible story of emotional abuse and coercive control... Platform Seven manages to be both rooted in the horror of human evil ... and tinged with supernatural terrors., Guardian\n\nDoughty nails it; as domestic noir goes, it's top stuff., Evening Standard\n\nOne of Doughty's successes in this novel is examining characters with ostensibly quite ordinary existences and imbuing their lives with complexity and yearning. She is also thoughtful in exploring difficult subjects such as emotional abuse, suicide and grief. Although Platform Seven covers bleak territory, this is a hopeful novel., The Times\n\n'The hotly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard is worth waiting for...you'll read this on one sitting.' -- Hannah Stephenson, Press Association 'Summer Reads'\n\nPart ghost story, part whodunnit and a blistering account of a coercive relationship, Platform Seven is unlike any other thriller I've ever read., Red\n\nYes, there's a mystery and characters who aren't what they seem, a cast of people (including the wonderful Dalmar) struggling with demons and explorations of destructive relationships but also it's a tale of love and redemption told with careful, incisive writing in a genre that's totally unexpected. The perfect thriller that'll grab your attention and keep it there with twists, turns and revelations., Stylist\n\nPage-turning...As with her earlier novels, including Apple Tree Yard, Doughty is tuned into the zeitgeist... There's no denying Doughty's ability to propel a reader onwards., Herald\n\nUtterly mesmerizing, with the pace of a thriller and a sense of profound mystery in the most ordinary of settings. I was hooked from its start to its nerve-racking, surprising finish. -- Deborah Moggach\n\nI could read a telephone directory if Louise Doughty wrote it. Fortunately she wrote Platform Seven instead. A beautifully constructed novel about love of all kinds. A joy from the first page to the last., Clare Mackintosh\n\nLouise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory. -- Hilary Mantel\n\nWhat a gripping work this is: a hybrid of ghost story, whodunnit and thriller which opens out into a deeply moving meditation on love, loss and humanity. I predict it will soon be everywhere. -- Patrick Gale\n\nBoth profoundly moving and utterly terrifying. I read this in one sitting and I know it will stay in my mind for a very long time. -- Emma Flint\n\nPart ghost story, part thriller, part an exploration of narcissism and gender politics and wholly original, Platform 7 is both a page-turner and an uncomfortable read. Doughty masterfully creates a snap-shot of an English town, with its flawed and multi-cultural inhabitants, exploring its darkest corners with a forensic eye. I was gripped and horrified to the final page. -- Elizabeth Fremantle\n\nProfoundly moving with a blistering depiction of an abusive relationship., Best\n\nA tremendous read. -- Melanie McGrath\n\nI loved it, just so much. One of the most original and beautiful novels I have read in a long time: brave and true and so affecting. I am so sad to have finished the novel and may well turn right back to page one and start it again. -- Laura Barnett\n\nAs gripping and brilliant as anything I have read this year. On the one hand it is a riveting thriller, near-impossible to put down, but when I finished it I was in tears. And there really aren't very many authors with the power to do that. -- Alice O'Keeffe\n\nLouise Doughty specialises in novels that read like exciting thrillers, partly, I suppose, because they are - but that also delve deep into the mysterious business of human relationships...Doughty can time a story: drip-feeding us the information we need with tantalising skill, while so","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595656278101,"sku":"9780571321940N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/20062cce-d776-471f-932b-5b07af6f551a.jpg?v=1682421026","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/platform-seven-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}