Doctor Sleep - Stephen King

The major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor available from Netflix May 2022

With a stunning new cover look, King's 'powerful sequel to The Shining' (Observer) - an instant international No. 1 bestseller.

Following a childhood haunted by terrifying events at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance has been drifting for decades. Finally, he settles into a job at a nursing home where he draws on his remnant 'shining' power to provide crucial comfort to the dying.
Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep'.

Then he meets Abra Stone, a girl with 'the brightest shining' ever seen.
But her gift is attracting the beautiful yet merciless Rose the Hat and her followers The True Knot.
They may look harmless, the sort of people who are devoted to their campers and RVs, but they live off the 'steam' that children like Abra produce.

Now Dan must call upon his powers once more as he battles for Abra's soul and survival - facing his fears and reawakening ghosts from his past.

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds.

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

King's own supplies of creative steam show little sign of being depleted.
The Sunday Times

A powerful sequel to The Shining

Observer

King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a melancholic beauty
Guardian, Book of the Week

By the end of this book your fingers will be mere stubs of their former selves...King's inventiveness and skill show no signs of slacking: Doctor Sleep has all the virtues of his best work
Margaret Atwood, New York Times

A gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt
Financial Times

King's own supplies of creative steam show little sign of being depleted.
The Sunday Times

A powerful sequel to The Shining

Observer

King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a melancholic beauty
Guardian, Book of the Week

All the virtues of his best work
Margaret Atwood, New York Times

A gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt
Financial Times

King is a very remarkable and singular writer. He can catch dialogue, throw away an observation or mint a simile, sometimes, brilliantly...Storytelling is everything - and by golly does he know how to carry the reader.
Observer

Sheer page-turning suspense . . . addictive . . . a triumph from the world's finest horror novelist
Sunday Express

It's a gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt.
Financial Times

King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a melancholic beauty while avoiding spiritualist blather
Guardian

Doctor Sleep is a warm, entertaining novel by a man who is no longer the prisoner of his demons, but knows where to find them when he needs to call on them.
Daily Telegraph

Thirty-six years on from his horror classic, THE SHINING, Stephen King's sequel shows he still has plenty of creative steam.
The Sunday Times

King has written a sequel, the tale of what happened to little Danny when he grew up.
Need one say more?
It cannot fail...the best thing to emerge from King's glittering, warped imagination is of mundane, small-town America corrupted by hidden forces...you cannot but respect his ruthless expertise as a storyteller...even those of us who would never freely pick up a Stephen King must genuflect to a master.
The Times

Stephen King's frightscapes are among the most incredible in literature, yet one believes in them unquestioningly.
Spectator

Terrifying and, as always, brilliantly-crafted tale, you won't be left wanting. But you may be left scared.
Sun

A magnificent sequel to one of the finest horror yarns written....Brilliant.
Daily Express

highly anticipated sequel to his bestselling 1977 novel The Shining.
Daily Express Saturday Mag

the book remains hopeful and hugely humane.
Irish Times

Doctor Sleep has a tightness, an economy, after some of the lengthier novels of recent years, but also a lightness of touch. It reads less like a horror novel than a thriller and ends on a scene of intimate and intense human contact, a gift of consolation at the moment of death.
Irish Times

King is too skilled a storyteller for Doctor Sleep to be anything other than unputdownable.
Mail On Sunday

Both an excellent sequel to The Shining and a strong novel in its own right, this is one of King's best books in the last decade.
SciFi Bulletin

Suspenseful, thrilling and packed with twists....an incredibly sincere piece of writing.
Time Out

It still grips, just differently than the original.
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