Solace House

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'
'Unsettling, cerebral and deeply addictive'
'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 in another 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's strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.

Will Maclean is a screenwriter who has worked worked with people as varied as Alexander Armstrong, Miranda Hart, Al Murray and Tracey Ullman. His first novel, The Apparition Phase, was shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize. He lives in London with his wife and young daughter.