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Kate murraybrownes brilliantly suspenseful first novel the upstairs room has been described as a property horror story. These supernatural reads were chosen by kate murraybrowne. Kate murraybrowne has stuck her pen directly into the throbbing vein of the modern middleclass nightmare. Kate murraybrowne is a wonderful writer and the upstairs room is a brilliantly evoked, surefooted debut about loneliness, compromise, illness, housing, ambition, jealousy, failure and love. The upstairs room will be published by picador, an imprint of pan. She studied english at cambridge university and worked in publishing for ten years before becoming a freelance editor.
Oct 12, 2019 in this respect, the upstairs room sisternovel could well be sarah waters the little stranger in that book, waters used the haunted house tale as a pretext for a social novel set in the austerity of the postwar years. Published by picador, this novel is billed as a modern day ghost story for the contemporary housing. The upstairs room caught my attention immediately and i settled down for a good ghost storypsychological thriller in the classic haunted house. I am available for events, readings and talks, to discuss writing, editing and the publishing industry. Like zoe, one third of the protagonists of the upstairs room, i dont believe in ghosts, but do believe in them enough to want to live them alone.
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