![]() ![]() For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret deep into the recesses of her mind-until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion must face what he has kept hidden.įorced to go down to the cellar, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable Iain Reid Burns blurs the line between crime fiction and horror. A timid spinster 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 ignoring the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. What becomes of a child who grows up without love? She worked as a bond trader in London before studying at the Moscow Institute of Film, and teaching film theory at Salford University. With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces. Born in Manchester, Catherine Burns is a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge. ![]()
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