The Night Strangers: A Novel
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"In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous?
The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.
The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead."
Acquired via PaperBackSwap. (Unabridged on 11 CDs; read by Alison Fraser & Mark Bramhall)
The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous?
The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.
The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead."
Acquired via PaperBackSwap. (Unabridged on 11 CDs; read by Alison Fraser & Mark Bramhall)
An airplane pilot (Chip) and his wife & twin daughters relocate to an old, rural Victorian house in New Hampshire after a disastrous water airplane landing. As the family members attempt to restart their lives in their new home, several simultaneous things begin occurring. Chip can't seem to escape his memories of the crash, including the ghosts of the deceased. The local group of "herbalists" in town seem intent on welcoming Chip's wife and daughters into their fold. And an old door in the basement of the family's home, bolted tightly shut, brings about more questions than answers.
One thing I like about Chris Bohjalian's books is that each one is very different from one another. You'd never know that they are by the same author, were his name not printed on each one, and I like that about his writing. That said, his books tend to be hit or miss with a lot of readers, and this one seems to be a "miss" for a lot of people. There is certainly a lot going on in this novel, but I did enjoy it for the most part. There are a lot of supernatural undertones to this one, but taken with a grain of salt, the story is enjoyable, though somewhat creepy. I did find the climax a little overly dramatic, but the ending wasn't quite as predictable as one might think, and I was fine with that.
One thing I like about Chris Bohjalian's books is that each one is very different from one another. You'd never know that they are by the same author, were his name not printed on each one, and I like that about his writing. That said, his books tend to be hit or miss with a lot of readers, and this one seems to be a "miss" for a lot of people. There is certainly a lot going on in this novel, but I did enjoy it for the most part. There are a lot of supernatural undertones to this one, but taken with a grain of salt, the story is enjoyable, though somewhat creepy. I did find the climax a little overly dramatic, but the ending wasn't quite as predictable as one might think, and I was fine with that.
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