The Loney

The Loney is a novel by Tana French. It was published in 2009 and won the Costa First Novel Award, the London Times and Daily Mail Best Book of the Year, the Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, the British Book Industry Awards Best Book of the Year, the Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book, and the Jeff VanderMeer Best Book of the Year. It was also a nominee for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. The terrors of this novel feel timeless and are abominations here, and miracles. The New York Times Book Review called it an amazing piece of fiction and Stephen King Completely terrifying. Paula Hawkins Vibrantly written. Entertainment Weekly Stunning. Jeff VanderMeer when Smith was a boy, he and his family went on an Easter pilgrimage with their local parish to the Loney, a bleak stretch of the English coastline, to visit an ancient shrine, in search of healing for Smith's disabled brother. But the locals were none too pleased to welcome them, and the two brothers soon became entangled in a troubling morass of dangerous rituals. For years after, Smith carries the burden of what happened that spring. And when he hears that the body of a young child has been found during a storm at the Loney, he

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award A Best Book of the Year, London Times and Daily Mail An Exceptional Novel, Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, British Book Industry Awards A Best Summer Book, Publishers Weekly The terrors of this novel feel timeless . . . There are abominations here, and miracles.-- New York Times Book Review An amazing piece of fiction.--Stephen King Completely terrifying.--Paula Hawkins Vibrantly written. -- Entertainment Weekly Stunning --Jeff VanderMeer When Smith was a boy, he and his family went on an Easter pilgrimage with their local parish to the Loney, a bleak stretch of the English coastline, to visit an ancient shrine, in search of healing for Smith's disabled brother. But the locals were none too pleased to welcome them, and the two brothers soon became entangled in a troubling morass of dangerous rituals. For years after, Smith carries the burden of what happened that spring. And when he hears that the body of a young child has been found during a storm at the Loney, he's forced to reckon with his darkest secrets, no matter the cost. The masterpiece by which Hurley will enter the Guild of the Gothic ( Guardian ), The Loney marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Fans of Shirley Jackson are sure to savor . . . Tight, suspenseful writing makes this masterful novel unsettling in the most compelling way.-- Washington Post