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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print & ebook

ISBN
  
1-84668-236-3

Author
  
Susan Hill

Genre
  
Fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom

3.4/5
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Publication date
  
2010

Pages
  
176

Originally published
  
2010

Page count
  
176

Publisher
  
Profile Books

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Similar
  
Susan Hill books, Ghost books, Fiction books

The small hand new ghost story from susan hill author of the woman in black


The Small Hand: A Ghost Story, is a novel by English author Susan Hill, first published in 2010 by Profile Books.

Contents

The small hand by susan hill book trailer


Plot introduction

On returning from a visit to a client, antiquarian book dealer Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and comes across a derelict Edwardian House. Overcome by curiosity he approaches the entrance and feels a small cold hand creeping into his own 'as if a child had taken hold of it'. Over the coming weeks he becomes subject to nightmares and panic attacks and further visits from the small hand. He vows to learn more about the house and its overgrown garden....

Reception

Reviews were mixed :

  • Jeremy Dyson writing in The Guardian writes 'this is a wonderful piece of storytelling that does what a good story ought to do: it keeps you guessing, pulls you in. And when the climax comes, the explanation and the source of the haunting are not what you think at all. You really don't see it coming.'
  • However Joan Smith writing in The Sunday Times complains 'The Small Hand exists in a version of the modern world that doesn’t quite feel convincing, and Hill has to keep up the eerie atmosphere by reminding the reader that events are tending towards a tragic denouement. By definition ghost stories deal in the unexplained, but this one leaves too little to the imagination.
  • References

    The Small Hand Wikipedia