Mrs De Winter (40 page)

Also by Susan Hill and available from Mandarin Paperbacks

THE MIST IN THE MIRROR

The tale that Sir James Monmouth has to tell is a strange and sinister one. On the surface he seems normal enough, but he is troubled by memories of a time, in the autumn of his fortieth year, when he returned to London from Penang. His first night back in England, a country he had not seen since the age of nine, was not auspicious. The Cross Keys Inn near the docks might provide shelter from the rain and the chill wind, but it offered few comforts to body or soul. The boy with the pale face … the old woman behind the curtain … the terrible scream … the mist in the mirror … did they have any reality beyond his fevered imagination?

‘Not just a completely absorbing and thoroughly frightening read, but a tremendously intelligent one … With or without that leather armchair, this is a book well worth losing a foggy night’s sleep over5

Literary Review

‘Reader beware. When you turn the last page of Susan Hill’s ghost story, you do not just close the book but emerge with an icy shiver from a Victorian age that seems for quite a few moments more real than the here and now … The Mist in the Mirror has all the ingredients of a classic ghost story1

Daily Mail

Thoroughly frightening5

Daily Telegraph

AIR & ANGELS

Celibate, irreproachable and distinguished, Thomas Cavendish is in his mid-fifties and the obvious man to become Master of his college. But, walking by the river, Thomas sees a young girl standing on the bridge. It is an apocalyptic vision, one that alters Thomas’s life irrevocably and tragically, but with the beauty and joy of a love never previously imagined.

‘Subtle and profoundly moving, this novel is rich in the qualities for which Hill has won such high praise in the past. She returns to the eerie landscape of the East Anglian marshes, which was used to such magnificent effect in her classic ghost story The Woman in Black … One of our finest novelists’

Sunday Times

‘It is a novel that Colette might have been proud to have written. It contains some of the most beautiful and evocative writing you could wish for … It is a novel to treasure. It has been worth waiting for”

Scotsman

‘Susan Hill’s first novel in sixteen years is as light as a feather but as powerful as flight5

Observer

THE WOMAN IN BLACK A Ghost Story

Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, summoned to attend a funeral, can have no inkling of the tragic secret it withholds - nor can he guess, until too late, the terrible purpose of the mysterious black-robed woman who haunts its shuttered rooms.

‘Authentically chilling3

Sunday Times

‘She writes with great power5

Daily Tekgrafh

‘A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine’

Guardian