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2000s: A frightening exploration of a marriage under strain
House of Windows
What you need to know before your trail
For the last few years, Veronica Croydon has been at the center of scandal, first as the younger woman for whom her famous professor left his wife, and then as his apparent widow. When a writer staying at the same vacation home as Veronica has the chance to hear her story, he jumps at it. What follows takes him to the dark heart of a father’s troubled relationship with his only son, in a story that stretches from a college town in the Hudson Valley to the battlefields on Afghanistan, from post-9/11 America to the height of Victorian England. It is a story that leads inexorably to the Belvedere House, the home Veronica shares with her husband, within whose walls a father’s terrible words to his son echo and gain in awful force
Locations
Reset- America/USA - New York - Hudson Valley
- A: Hudson Valley
- B: 9/11 Memorial & Museum
- Afghanistan
- C: Kabul
- England/Ireland
- D: Victorian England - Belvedere House
Travel Guide
Locations are vague or fictional but there’s some jump scares!
“Mirrors hold more than reflections. There are corners in them around which we do not—we dare not—see,”
“We bought the house for a song and a fairly cheap tune at that.”
Dickens is also a major theme and vibe in the novel. Art and visuals of all kinds are important to the storyline and painting especially so. Think horror novels with whispers of Stephen King’s The Shining.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: House of Windows
Destination/location: New York, England, Afghanistan Author/guide: John Langan Departure Time: 2000s
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