For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding Burnt Island is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept outpost, he will produce every writers dream -- the bestseller. And this time, he plans to subvert his usual genre and write a horror story. But upon arrival, Maxs fantasies of hermetic island life are overturned when he encounters a potential rival living in close proximity the famously reclusive James Fairfax, author of the internationally-lauded novel, Lifeblood.Fairfaxs critical and financial success with Lifeblood, coupled with his refusal to court the limelight, has long been the talk of the literary circles. However, as the lives of the two men become intertwined, Max cannot marry the myth of the publicity-shy Fairfax with the apparently urbane and confident reality. He begins to suspect that Fairfax is not the true author of his exceptional debut. Moreover, Max cannot escape the disturbing knowledge that Fairfaxs wife has disappeared. Recently-divorced and struggling to keep a grip on his fragile mental state, the vulnerable Max finds himself sliding into Fairfaxs world. And he starts to witness alarming visions that take the form of the horror he is attempting to write. Who or what is the sinister, darting figure who appears between the trees of Fairfaxs garden at night? Who is the tiny, forlorn little girl who seems to need help? And what has happened to Fairfaxs missing wife? With an unnerving plotline in which we encounter doppelgängers, ghostly forms and machines masquerading as humans, Burnt Island is a masterwork of subtle terror. At times evoking The Wicker Man in its growing sense of paranoia and undercurrent of eroticism, Thompsons evocative, compellingly-written story takes a grip on the reader as inexorable as that of Burnt Island on Max Long. An ironic satire on literary ambition, Thompsons sixth novel soon draws the reader into something much darker.
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