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A grieving novelist retreats to a lake house that is not as peaceful as it seems
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What it is about
Mike Noonan is a bestselling novelist whose wife has died suddenly, and he is unable to write. He returns to their summer house on a Maine lake, which he calls Sara Laughs. Soon he is dreaming of the house’s past and meets a young widow and her daughter in the middle of a custody fight.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like slower, character-driven horror.
What you will get
One of King’s more emotional novels, with a ghost story at its heart.
Bag of Bones Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Horror · Haunted house · Grief · Maine
Length
529 pages · ≈ 15 h
More about this book
Characters
Mike Noonan, a widowed writer, and a young mother and her daughter.
Setting
A lake house in rural Maine.
What makes it different
A ghost story that is also a story about grief and about a town’s history.
Feel
Moody, eerie and emotional.
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