by Susan Hill · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099563044
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«The Woman in Black» is Susan Hill's gothic horror novel, published by Vintage in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Young lawyer Arthur Kipps attends the funeral of Mrs Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, a house shrouded in fog and tragic secrets. When he glimpses a gaunt woman dressed in black, a growing unease takes hold of him, intensified by the locals' reluctance to speak of her and her terrifying purpose.
It is book 1 of 2 in the Woman In Black series. The novel was originally published in 1983 and this edition belongs to the Vintage 21 collection.
Recommended reading from age 12, especially for fans of ghost stories.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
