'This is a powerful piece of work and once the horrors kick in, the pace is relentless. But the story is so elegant and wide-ranging, and the three central characters so delicately evoked, that it feels far shorter.' ( Daily Mail 20080201) at almost 600 pages, it's a doorstop of a book. then this is his David Copperfield, a book written with a deftness of touch and a sure command of the material that is breathtaking. 'If King is a modern-day Dickens, as some critics have suggested. 'In many ways this is classic King, a thriller with agressively credible characters.’ ( The Times 20080126) You feels as though the individual characters are actually real. 'As with all Stephen King novels, this book is sinister and surprising. you won't use your mobile for days.' ( Guardian on CELL 20080121) 'Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention' ( Daily Mail on LISEY'S STORY 20080121) Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift.Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades.' ( The Times on CELL 20080121) 'The true narrative artist is a rare creature. 'The theme of an artist enslaved and driven to madness by his own talent is not a new one for King, but the parallels with his own injuries and recovery – and his uncanny ability so spin a good yarn – mean the story always feels spite the pace and the pyrotechnics, the book still has a heart, which makes the idea of King’s retirement the scariest prospect of all' ( TheLondonPaper 20080121) 'The scenes following Freemantle’s physical recovery, of his anger and suicidal depression, are the author writing at his absolute best, immediately gripping the reader and putting him on the protagonist’s side.King has become such a sophisticated writer that this novel is never less than page-turning' (Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday 20080120) 'He has become a fascinating paradoxical figure, still seen as ultra-commercial but, in fact, increasingly highbrow and self-conscious' ( Sunday Times 20080120)

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