Lesley Glaister – författare

A remote, crumbling house; four sisters; and the secrets that imprison them...''Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister'' Harper''s Bazaar''Frightening yet eerily beautiful ... Lesley Glaister is adept, original and mature'' Hilary MantelIn a remote, crumbling house in the Fens live four sisters - Agatha, Milly, and Ellen and Esther - identical twins so closely linked as to be almost one person. They have lived there all their lives, trapped still by the fear of their dead father, who governs his daughters'' lives from beyond the grave. And then there is George, another inhabitant, imprisoned in the cellar. Little by little, macabre events come to light: events that transform an idyllic country childhood into a world of eccentric isolation.''Eerie and satisfying - a horror story told with tenderness'' Sunday Times

The perfect Halloween novel!''Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within'' Independent on Sunday''Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister'' Harper''s BazaarAll Nell''s life, Olive Owen has lived next door but one. And all her life, Nell has hated her. Even at school Olive had sparkled indecently, turning heads. Nell has a son, her pleasure and her shame, though now she lives alone. Nell is sharp in all the places Olive is round. When Wolfe moves into the house in between them, their quiet street is transformed. A lonely, spirited eight-year-old boy, he knocks on their doors at Halloween and invites them to his bonfire party. As the fireworks flare, he finds himself in the middle of an ancient conflict, grudges bared and burning with a fury he could never have imagined.''A perfect, black little tale'' Observer

She always felt different - and now she knows why.''An outstanding novel which confirms Glaister''s command of the domestic and the bizarre'' Independent on Sunday''Enormously enjoyable'' Nick Hornby Jennifer is about to turn thirteen and is suffering more than the usual teenage confusion. She''s lonely and her parents are unfashionably strange, so she lives in her imagination, dreaming of acceptance, to be popular and normal. Then Jennifer learns that her supposed parents are really her grandparents, and that her mother deserted her years ago. So when Bronwyn, the new girl at school, and the sinister Johnny crash into her life, adventures with them - no matter how dangerous - seem immediately more attractive. ''Glaister''s rounded gift is to show life as it really is'' Independent on Sunday

Nadia has been here before, at this seeping-away of hope. The other times curl behind her like the petals of a rose, all the memories, all her babies - false alarms, real pregnancies lasting only until her body rejected them. Meanwhile her boyfriend Simon is underground caving. Nadia knows he risks his life, a decadent death among the limestone, his bones withering in the rock. Her work is to create, to mould leather-hard clay into something beautiful. But she has not the heart for it today.''Limestone and Clay shows a maturation and deepening of her considerable talents ... Lesley Glaister has produced a portrait of human relationships both disconcerting and haunting in its unflinching clarity'' Sunday Telegraph

Jennifer is in prison for an undisclosed crime. Denied companionship, she escapes into her memory and imagination. Peggy Maybee, Jennifer''s ancestor, was transported for stealing a peacock. This is all that is known about Peggy but Jennifer conjures a life for her aboard a convict ship bound for Botany Bay.A partial eclipse of the moon used by the captain as inspiration for a sermon triggers a mutiny and, amidst the chaos of brawling thieves, cut-throats, whores and crew, Peggy makes a bid for freedom ...''Brilliant, seductive and assured'' Nick Hornby