num_pages: 241
description: Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub along the brick wall of a narrow alley if the conditions are exactly right youll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first you wont want to leave. Later youll find that you cant. Every nine years the houses residents  an odd brother and sister  extend a unique invitation to someone whos different or lonely: a precocious teenager a recently divorced policeman a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out its already too late... Spanning five decades from the last days of the 1970s to the present leaping genres and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house storyas only David Mitchell could imagine it.
language: English
title: Slade House
publisher: Random House