INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED ALTERNATE COLOUR TYPE SPRAYED EDGES RIBBON Author: Will Maclean Crime & mystery | Horror & ghost stories Published on 7th May 2026 by Atlantic Books in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 512 pages 234mm x 156mm | 600g THE BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE READ TO BE BELIEVED 'Utterly brilliant, a genre-defying masterpiece''I've never read anything like this before''Singular, unsettling and unforgettable''A modern classic in the making''Monumental... One of those novels that reminds me why I read fiction in the first place''I'm just sad that I won't be able to read it for the first time again'IN THE SUMMER OF 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella. When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne's journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief inanother realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached. As the students delve deeper into the house's secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne'sstrange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.
