It is the hottest August in living memory.
A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again.
She will tell him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate. The long, blistering days spent sunbathing; the airless nights filled with inexplicable noises; the words that appear on the windows, written in dust.
Why are members of her family disappearing, one by one? Is she telling the truth? Is he?
In a world where reality is beginning to blur, how can we know what to believe?
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IT WAS AROUND about then that the door started banging.- 1
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(@TransworldBooks, 19 May 2016, e-book, 177 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I really enjoyed Nothing On Earth. It's a short book, more of a novella but so much happens it felt like I was reading something double the length. The book has only six chapters and I could have read it one sitting but I spread it across six days because I wanted to take my time and absorb everything. The 'man' is the narrator and he takes his time telling you his strange, disturbing story and the aftermath. I enjoyed myself with this one.
