Lisey's Story
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4.4 • 29 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
*Soon to be an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN KING AND APPLE TV +
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark.
Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure.
Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that he was a haunted man whose bestselling novels were based on a terrifying reality.
Now Scott has gone, Lisey wants to lock herself away with her memories. But the fans have other ideas. And when the sinister threats begin, Lisey realises that, just as Scott depended on her strength - her light - to live, so she will have to draw on his darkness to survive.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
One of Stephen King’s most personal and emotionally resonant works is also reportedly his favourite. Two years after the death of bestselling novelist Scott Landon, his wife, Lisey, finally confronts the task of organising the beloved author’s papers and memorabilia. Lisey’s increasingly unnerving journeys into the past force her to reckon with Scott’s harrowing history of abuse and her own role in his professional success. As the memories accumulate, Lisey uncovers her husband’s ultimate legacy: a dangerous and alluring alternate dimension that provided him with escape and inspiration. Part memoir, part fantasy, part horror, Lisey’s Story delivers a perfect visceral alchemy that’s pure King.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Following King's triumphant return to the world of gory horror in Cell, the bestselling author proves he's still the master of supernatural suspense in this minimally bloody but disturbing and sorrowful love story set in rural Maine. Lisey's husband, Pulitzer Prize winning author Scott Landon, has been dead for two years at the book's start, but his presence is felt on every page. Lisey hears him so often in her head that when her catatonic sister, Amanda, begins speaking to her with Scott's voice, she finds it not so much unbelievable as inevitable. Soon she's following a trail of clues that lead her to Scott's horrifying childhood and the eerie world called Boo'ya Moon, all while trying to help Amanda and avoid a murderous stalker. Both a metaphor for coming to terms with grief and a self-referencing parable of the writer's craft, this novel answers the question King posed 25 years ago in his tale "The Reach": yes, the dead do love.
