Lucy Atkins is an award-winning author, feature journalist and Sunday Times book critic. She has written for newspapers including the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Times and the Telegraph as well as many UK magazines. She teaches on the Masters in Creative Writing at Oxford University.
Horribly, horribly compulsive. Brilliant
*Fiona Barton, author of The Widow*
A gripping page-turner
*The Sunday Times*
Taut, tense, and beautifully written. I held my breath between
chapters and didn't sleep until I reached the end
*Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go*
A complex, creepy and insidious novel
*The Guardian on The Night Visitor*
The rich characterisation makes for an alarmingly plausible
riches-to-rags tale
*Sunday Times on The Night Visitor*
Elegant, clever, beautifully written. Lucy Atkins is, quite
frankly, a genius
*Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep*
Thrillingly creepy and darkly funny, The Night Visitor set me
racing through the chapters with its brilliant plotting and
characters that crackle off the page. A cannot tear yourself away
novel
*Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat*
Addictive . . . a pace so relentless that you'll want to inhale
this novel in one uninterrupted sitting
*Sunday Times on The Other Child*
This atmospheric, propulsive novel creeps up on you like footsteps
in the dead of night... a tingling layer of gothic suspense
*Metro on The Night Visitor*
One of the most vivid, memorable and menacing characters I've ever
read...Dark, tense and menacing, I was quickly drawn into the story
and couldn't put it down. Readers who enjoyed Notes on a Scandal by
Zoe Heller will adore it
*CL Taylor, author of The Lie*
Wonderfully dark and intriguing. In Vivian, Atkins has created a
fascinating and sinister character who will stay with you long
after you've finished the book. Highly recommended
*Linda Green, author of While My Eyes Were Closed*
Such a sophisticated, layered read, I absolutely revelled in it. A
wonderful, wonderful book. The plotting is superb but the real
triumph is the characterisation. The moment I finished, I wanted to
read it all over again
*Clare Mackintosh on The Night Visitor*
I absolutely loved this novel. The Other Child is seriously
gripping, seriously scary and seriously brilliant
*Clare Kendal, author of The Book of You*
Atmospheric and packed with suspense, kept me on edge from start to
finish
*Woman & Home Magazine on The Other Child*
Sinister, suspenseful and a great sense of place. It races along,
as a family history is unpicked
Fabulously dark
*Woman & Home on The Night Visitor*
Sinister, utterly compulsive...will keep your pulse racing until
its dramatic denouement
*Red Magazine on The Night Visitor*
Truly unnerving. Atkins perfectly captures the vulnerability that
comes with moving overseas, away from friends and support networks,
and uses it expertly in this compelling novel. Not just
one-more-page gripping but perceptive and beautifully written
*Lucie Whitehouse on The Other Child*
An elegantly written page-turner which pulled me in from the start
and held its grip until the final page
*Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer*
An absolute cracker...Fantastic!
*Sunday Mirror on The Night Visitor*
It's wonderfully creepy, in that clever way that is tied in with
character, as much as plot and setting. And the beetle metaphor is
just ingenious
*Sabine Durrant, author of Lie With Me*
The tension is immediate and unrelenting; the sense of unease
palpable. Deceptive on every level, this is a gripping,
Rendellesque read
*Mick Herron, author of Spook Street*
Enjoyably creepy
*Sunday Express on The Night Visitor*
Utterly gripping
*Literary Review on The Night Visitor*
The last book I read in one sitting like this was Louise Doughty's
Apple Tree Yard. Like Louise, Lucy Atkins is brilliant at ramping
up the tension so that there's not a chance of relief until the
end
*Polly Samson*
Brilliantly believable...you will relish every page
*The People on The Night Visitor*
This is an enthralling, creepy and endlessly twisty story about
secrets, lies and the destructive power of ambition. We galloped to
the climax. Five stars
*Heat on The Night Visitor*
I read this book in one sitting. A tense psychological thriller
which explores authenticity, fame, and lies and the depths you
might sink to in order to protect your reputation. A page-turner
that keeps you gripped from the very first page
*Psychologies on The Night Visitor*
It put me in mind of Misery, and Rebecca. Splendidly tense, creepy
and enjoyable
*Sarah Hilary, author of Quieter Than Killing*
Characters so real you could reach out and touch them. Absorbing,
exciting and full of rich detail - snap this one up!
*Lucie Whitehouse, author of Keep You Close*
Beautifully crafted, unsettling and utterly unputdownable, The
Night Visitor explores what happens when we take someone else's
story and make it our own
*Nuala Ellwood, author of My Sister's Bones*
Crackles with undercurrents of mistrust and menace. Tense,
atmospheric and beautifully written, this unnerving tale of
ambition and revenge held me captive until the last page.
Brilliant
*Amanda Jennings, author of In Her Wake*
Clever, multilayered and morally murky. I read it with a delicious
sense of dread
*Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad*
Elegantly written with a rollercoaster of twists and turns, The
Night Visitor has creepy echoes of Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal.
I read it in two sittings
*Elizabeth Heathcote, author of Undertow*
The Night Visitor is an addictive and intricately plotted
page-turner. I devoured it and I loved it
*Hannah Beckermann, author and journalist*
Thrilling...the sort of book you think about even when not reading,
and stay up far later than you should to finish. Atkins is a master
of suspense; she creates characters that you feel like you've met,
and situations you never want to be in. Completely wonderful
*Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, historian, author and TV presenter*
It's clever, complex and compelling and grips right up to that
completely unexpected twist. A chilling psychological thriller with
beetles!
*Fanny Blake on The Night Visitor*
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