Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA.
'A compelling masterpiece' -- Sunday Telegraph 'King deploys his talents to formidable effect ... the tension is unrelenting and the narrator/heroine with her vivid colloquialisms and her sharp, homespun wit, is a tour du force of authorial ventriloquy. This is a work not just of imagination but of genuine pathos.' -- Daily Telegraph