![]() "Lauren Oliver's Rooms is a sensational novel that easily glides between the normal and the paranormal. "A smoky and realistic ghost story that subverts cliché.This satisfying novel will be enjoyed by Oliver’s fans and bring new ones to the fold." When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide-with cataclysmic results. The living and dead are each haunted by painful truths that will soon surface with explosive force. Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself-in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a light bulb. Jostling for space, memory, and supremacy, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Prim Alice and the cynical Sandra, long dead former residents bound to the house, linger within its claustrophobic walls. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance.īut the Walkers are not alone. Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. Lauren Oliver makes her adult debut with this mesmerizing story in a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() A novel narrated by two ghosts that inhabit the walls of an old house. ![]()
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