A <b>complex, creepy and insidious</b> novel

The Guardian on The Night Visitor

The <b>rich characterisation</b> makes for an alarmingly plausible riches-to-rags tale

Sunday Times on The Night Visitor

Elegant, clever, beautifully written.<b> Lucy Atkins is, quite frankly, a genius</b>

Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Thrillingly creepy and darkly funny, <i>The Night Visitor</i> set me racing through the chapters with its<b> brilliant plotting and characters that crackle off the page</b>. A <i>cannot tear yourself away</i> novel

Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

<b>Addictive</b> . . . a pace so relentless that you'll want to inhale this novel in one uninterrupted sitting

Sunday Times on The Other Child

This <b>atmospheric</b>, propulsive novel <b>creeps up on you like footsteps in the dead of night</b>... a tingling layer of gothic suspense

Metro on The Night Visitor

One of the most <b>vivid, memorable and menacing</b> characters I've ever read...<b>Dark, tense and menacing, I was quickly drawn into the story and couldn't put it down. </b>Readers who enjoyed <b>Notes on a Scandal</b> by Zoe Heller will adore it

CL Taylor, author of The Lie

<b>Wonderfully dark</b> and intriguing. In Vivian, Atkins has created a <b>fascinating and sinister</b> character who will stay with you long after you've finished the book. <b>Highly recommended</b>

Linda Green, author of While My Eyes Were Closed

Such a sophisticated, layered read, <b>I absolutely revelled in it. A wonderful, wonderful book.</b> The plotting is superb but the real triumph is the characterisation. The moment I finished, I wanted to read it all over again

Clare Mackintosh on The Night Visitor

I absolutely loved this novel. <i>The Other Child</i> is <b>seriously gripping, seriously scary and seriously brilliant</b>

Clare Kendal, author of The Book of You

Atmospheric and<b> packed with suspense</b>, kept me on edge from start to finish<b> </b>

Woman & Home Magazine on The Other Child

<b>Sinister, suspenseful and a great sense of place.</b> It races along, as a family history is unpicked

<b>Fabulously dark</b>

Woman & Home on The Night Visitor

<b>Sinister, utterly compulsive</b>...will keep your pulse racing until its <b>dramatic denouement</b>

Red Magazine on The Night Visitor

Truly unnerving. Atkins perfectly captures the vulnerability that comes with moving overseas, away from friends and support networks, and uses it expertly in this compelling novel. <b>Not just one-more-page gripping but perceptive and beautifully written</b>

Lucie Whitehouse on The Other Child

<b>An elegantly written page-turner</b> which pulled me in from the start and held its grip until the final page

Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer

An absolute cracker...<b>Fantastic!</b>

Sunday Mirror on The Night Visitor

It's <b>wonderfully creepy</b>, in that clever way that is tied in with character, as much as plot and setting. And the beetle metaphor is <b>just ingenious</b>

Sabine Durrant, author of Lie With Me

The tension is immediate and unrelenting; the sense of unease palpable. Deceptive on every level, this is <b>a gripping, Rendellesque read</b>

Mick Herron, author of Spook Street

<b>Enjoyably creepy</b>

Sunday Express on The Night Visitor

<b>Utterly gripping</b>

Literary Review on The Night Visitor

The last book I read in one sitting like this was Louise Doughty's <i>Apple Tree Yard</i>. Like Louise, <b>Lucy Atkins is brilliant at ramping up the tension so that there's not a chance of relief until the end</b>

Polly Samson

Brilliantly believable...<b>you will relish every page</b>

The People on The Night Visitor

This is<b> an enthralling, creepy and endlessly twisty story </b>about secrets, lies and the destructive power of ambition. <b>We galloped to the climax.</b> Five stars

Heat on The Night Visitor

<b>I read this book in one sitting</b>. A tense psychological thriller which explores authenticity, fame, and lies and the depths you might sink to in order to protect your reputation. A page-turner that <b>keeps you gripped from the very first page</b>

Psychologies on The Night Visitor

It put me in mind of <i>Misery</i>, and <i>Rebecca</i>. <b>Splendidly tense, creepy and enjoyable </b>

Sarah Hilary, author of Quieter Than Killing

<b>Characters so real you could reach out and touch them</b>. Absorbing, exciting and full of rich detail - snap this one up!

Lucie Whitehouse, author of Keep You Close

<b>Beautifully crafted, unsettling and utterly unputdownable</b>, The Night Visitor explores what happens when we take someone else's story and make it our own

Nuala Ellwood, author of My Sister's Bones

Crackles with undercurrents of mistrust and menace.<b> Tense, atmospheric and beautifully written</b>, this unnerving tale of ambition and revenge <b>held me captive</b> until the last page. Brilliant

Amanda Jennings, author of In Her Wake

<b>Clever, multilayered and morally murk</b><b>y</b>. I read it with <b>a delicious sense of dread</b>

Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad

Elegantly written with a rollercoaster of twists and turns, <i>The Night Visitor</i> has <b>creepy echoes of Zoe Heller's <i>Notes on a Scandal</i></b>. I read it in two sittings

Elizabeth Heathcote, author of Undertow

<i>The Night Visitor</i> is an addictive and intricately plotted page-turner. <b>I devoured it and I loved it</b>

Hannah Beckermann, author and journalist

Thrilling...the sort of book you think about even when not reading, and stay up far later than you should to finish. Atkins is a master of suspense; she creates <b>characters that you feel like you've met, and situations you never want to be in. Completely wonderful</b>

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, historian, author and TV presenter

It's clever, <b>complex and compelling and grips right up to that completely unexpected twist</b>. A chilling psychological thriller with beetles!

Fanny Blake on The Night Visitor