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From legendary storyteller Stephen King, comes this No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, now with a stunning new cover look for Summer 2024.
WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student.
But when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. When Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe – inside the shed is a portal to another world.
Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher – for their world or ours.
dfridd –
I’d never read a Stephen King until now and I’m really pleased I finally did. I’m a big fan of films like Shawshank Redemption and The Shining and I feel like this is certainly in the league of The Shining. It starts with a lovely supportive relationship between a 17 year old Jock Charlie and a grumpy old man Bowditch in a “creepy” house. We quickly learn the old man has a mysterious past but Charlie just wants to help him recover from a fall. The dog is the star during this preamble.
Of course, it turns. I won’t spoil it but it’s pretty spectacular!
Strong themes and references to the fairy tales we know and love. A real page turner!