Goodnight Stranger

"Somewhere the ghosts of Shirley Jackson and the Henry James of The Turn of the Screw are smiling, because a wildly talented young writer has joined their lineage." George Saunders, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo Entertainment Weekly's New Books to Read in July Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Poets Writers Annual Debut Fiction Roundup "One of the best literary thrillers you'll read this year, I was hooked from page one." Cosmopolitan Lydia and Lucas Moore are in their late twenties when a stranger enters their small world on Wolf Island. Lydia, the responsible sister, has cared for her pathologically shy brother, Lucas, ever since their mom's death a decade before. They live together, comfortable yet confined, in their family house by the sea, shadowed by events from their childhood. When Lydia sees the stranger step off the ferry, she feels...