Book after Book

Welcome back to Blind Date With a Book Thursday… even if it’s Friday morning! Thank you all for joining in the fun and sharing your guesses on Twitter or on the blog. I hope you enjoyed yourselves! A quick look at the clues: I was published in 2011 I was written by a male British writer I am set in a hotel on the French Alps during winter I tell the story of a couple who survives an avalanche and finds that the entire village has been evacuated by the time they make it back to their hotel I am mysterious and increasingly scary I will make you question what is real and what isn’t Any last-minute guesses? No? Ok, here we go… This week’s book was… The Silent Land by Graham Joyce. I read it back in 2011 and I definitely recommend it. In fact, I wouldn’t mind re-reading it myself if I can track another copy down. To read more about the book and what I thought of it, please click here . I hope to see you next week for some more fun!

By Graham Joyce Published by Orion Books During their holiday in the French Alps, one morning Zoe and Jake are hit by an avalanche while skiing. They are fortunate enough to survive and they slowly make their way back to their hotel, which, with its lit-up windows and promise of warmth, appears like a mirage to the traumatised couple. They soon find out, however, that the hotel is deserted. Food is out on the kitchen counters, the logs in the fireplaces are ablaze but there is no-one around. They also realise that the phones are not working and that both the TV and the radio emit nothing but static. They come to the conclusion that everyone has been evacuated due to the risk of further avalanches and they feel even luckier to have survived. Being cut off from the world doesn’t seem too bad in comparison to what could have happened. In fact, despite still being shocked by their near-death experience and completely exhausted, the new situation is almost romantic. It is when they recover ...