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Along with the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue's Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Landscapes, Catherine Burns' debut novel, The Guests, explores the complicated truths we are able to keep covered from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of floors. Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older sibling, John, in a crumbling mansion on the border of a north seaside resort. A timid spinster in her 50s who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eyesight to the sounds she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and turning a blind eyesight to the women's laundry in the hamper that's not hers. For years she's buried the signs of John's devastating secret into the profound recesses of her mind - before day John is crippled by way of a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to carry his secret. Forced to decrease to the cellar and face what her sibling has kept covered, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the simple truth is slowly but surely unraveled, we finally begin to comprehend: Maybe John isn't the only one with a dark part....
