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The Ward
2012
First Published
3.61
Average Rating
328
Number of Pages

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“Startlingly well written”, Diane Awerbuck, The Times Lisa is a plastic surgery addict with severe self-esteem issues. The only hospital that will let her go under the knife is New Hope: a grimy, grey-walled facility dubbed 'No Hope' by its patients. Farrell is a celebrity photographer. His last memory is a fight with his fashion-model girlfriend and now he's woken up in No Hope, alone. Needle marks criss-cross his arms. A sinister nurse keeps tampering with his drip. And he's woken up blind... Panicked and disorientated, Farrell persuades Lisa to help him escape, but the hospital's dimly lit corridors only take them deeper underground - into a twisted mirror world staffed by dead-eyed nurses and doped-up orderlies. Down here, in the Modification Ward, Lisa can finally have the face she wants... but at a price that will haunt them both forever. “S. L. Grey’s depiction of postmodern horror is practically peerless”, Niall Alexander, Tor.com “A thoroughly unnerving read that straddles the line between visceral horror and Kafka-esque paranoia beautifully”, Will Salmon, SFX “A dark and scary read”, Keith Brooke, The Guardian “A stunningly visceral horror novel … a terrific piece of nightmarish engineering”, Pornokitsch

Avg Rating
3.61
Number of Ratings
549
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

S.L. Grey
S.L. Grey
Author · 6 books
S.L. Grey is a collaboration between Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg. Sarah is a novelist and screenwriter and die-hard zombie fanatic. She writes crime novels and thrillers under her own name, and as Lily Herne she and her daughter Savannah Lotz write the Deadlands series of zombie novels for young adults. Louis is a Johannesburg-based fiction writer and editor. He was a bookseller for several years, and has a Master's degree in vampire fiction and a doctorate in post-religious apocalyptic fiction.
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