The Girl On The Landing

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her.

But then Michael begins to change. It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last. But who - or what - is changing Michael...

“'Torday is clearly having fun'”

The finale is terrifying, harking back to old-fashioned ghost stories, but with a modern, plausible twist - it stood the hairs of my arms on end DAILY TELEGRAPH
Torday skilfully maintains a knife-edge tension... an original and satisfying thriller DAILY MAIL
A gently comic novel about schizophrenia sounds like the worst idea ever, but Torday pulls it off magnificently.. a clever, gripping novel THE TIMES
Paul Torday's third and extremely accomplished novel.. is another tour de force from one of our best emerging writers DAILY EXPRESS
Compelling and totally captivating BELLA
His prose remains anything but safe. It is supple, skilful and literary... this is a fabulously good yarn OBSERVER
The author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN impresses again with this absorbing tale of identity PSYCHOLOGIES
A fantastically gripping and chilling novel BEST
A compulsively readable psychological thriller... Torday's ability to keep the reader in the grip of a nightmare is exceptional METRO
Torday is a gifted writer, I loved it THE BOOKSELLER
Told by husband and wife, this intriguing story of the impact of ghostly visitors is an unusual exploration of mental illness CHOICE
What starts as a tale of domestic disharmony evolves into a gripping, ghostly page-turner FINANCIAL TIMES

Paul Torday was born in 1946 and read English Literature at Oxford. He spent the next 30 years working in industry, after which he scaled back his business responsibilities to fulfil a long-harboured ambition - to write. He burst on to the literary scene in 2006 with SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate bestseller. He lives close to the River North Tyne.

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her.But then Michael begins to change. It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last. But who - or what - is changing Michael...

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