Mirrorland: the dark and twisty fiction debut from 2022's new voice in psychological suspense

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AN ADDICTIVE SLICE OF GOTHIC' i paper 'TOLD WITH THUMPING HEART AND EXTRAORDINARY TENDERNESS' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'THE LOVE CHILD OF GILLIAN FLYNN AND STEPHEN KING' Greer Hendricks READERS ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH MIRRORLAND. Mirrorland is a story about twin sisters – identical mirror twins – who have a dark, damaged childhood, re-started their lives aged 12 and are in love with the same man. It is a fantastical world which feels incredibly real and I could almost feel the ship listing in a storm and was there in the Clown Cafe with the twins.

has left Cat clues in almost every room: a treasure hunt that leads right back to Mirrorland, where she knows the truth lies crouched and waiting. Cat is convinced that El is fine because she has an unshakable belief that she would have felt it if her sister were dead, and the cruelty of going missing is exactly what she would expect from El. Much of Mirrorland is devoted to the idea of how children use imaginative play to understand mature, adult situations.The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion.

Okay, here’s the thing, I actually enjoyed this, it’s quite a compelling read, unusually dark, twisted and, well, strange.

Instead of making our main character Cat a beaten down and depressed drunk whom no one trusts, Johnstone instead created a character that is both fragile and strong. Johnstone has plenty of tricks up her sleeve in this suspenseful tale of betrayal and revenge, memory and imagination, and the thin line between love and hate. A picture of El and Ross on holiday somewhere fills the screen'all tan and white teeth; his arm flung around her shoulders as she leans in, tips up her chin to laugh. but, looking at the prevailing wind speed through the firth on the morning of the third, we estimate that she had already been missing for approximately six hours by the time the alarm was raised.