{"product_id":"book-bu7u","title":"The Visitors","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop. \u003ci\u003eThe Visitors\u003c\/i\u003e is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable.” —Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e I’m Thinking of Ending Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e and the atmospheric claustrophobia of\u003ci\u003e Grey Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Burns’s debut novel\u003ci\u003e The Visitors \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John’s rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and turning a blind eye to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind—until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret. Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side....","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347297345840,"sku":"BDbu7u","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/330814-bu7u-Square.jpg?v=1734200403","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bu7u","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}