Solace House

<p><b>THE BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE READ TO BE BELIEVED <br><br>'Utterly brilliant, a genre-defying masterpiece'<br>'I've never read anything like this before'<br>'Singular, unsettling and unforgettable'<br>'A modern classic in the making'<br>'Monumental... One of those novels that reminds me why I read fiction in the first place'</b><br>'<b>I'm just sad that I won't be able to read it for the first time again'</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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<br>another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached.<br><br>As the students delve deeper into the house's secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne's<br>strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.</p>