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ROOMS

Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver's first novel for adults.

A rich elderly bachelor named Richard Walker has died, leaving behind a country house with its rooms alternately full of junk, mementos, and valuable possessions. But the house isn’t just made up of material objects: it is inhabited by two ghosts, Alice and Sandra, once living residents at the very same address. How do they speak? Through the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs. How do they feel? The flushing of a toilet is a drop in their stomachs; a boy pounding down the stairs is a twinge in their knees. They have become one with the house. But not is all is well at the old Walker house. Richard Walker’s ex-wife and kids have come to read his will, setting off the potential for explosive clashes in the various rooms.

Our ghost narrator Alice, once friendly with Sandra, now loathes her fellow spirit to the point where she longs to be free; she longs to set the house on fire, burn it down, move on, into the wider world. When she feels some of her earthly powers coming back, the house and all its dwellers may be in danger.

At 29 years of age, Lauren Oliver has published three New York Times bestselling YA novels, one middle-grade novel which garnered three starred reviews, and co-created 20 books for young readers sold at auction to major publishers via her Paper Lantern Lit development company.

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Book Published 2014-09-23 by Ecco/HarperCollins
Book Published 2014-09-23 by Ecco/HarperCollins

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Rooms was also the PW pick of the week. Read more...

A chilling ghost story, and much, much more: Rooms is a magnificent gothic fugue on the themes of longing and buried secrets.

With poetic prose, Oliver weaves a satisfying story arc for each character, and readers will be left with a feeling of peaceful acceptance.

As haunting as it is haunted.

Oliver has already triumphed in the YA arena with Before I Fall and the “Delirium” trilogy; her first novel for adults has already been called “a magnificent gothic fugue on the themes of longing and buried secrets” by Time critic Lev Grossman, author of “The Magicians” trilogy. After Richard Walker dies, his embittered ex-wife and two sullen children arrive at his overstuffed mansion to claim their inheritance. The house also comes with two ghosts who exchange observations that no one can hear—until a new ghost starts communing with Walker’s son. With a 150,000-copy first printing.

Lauren Oliver's smart and spidery novel ROOMS tells the story of a family and its ghosts, all of them sharing the same house. ROOMS is mysterious and mournful and incantatory, so well done that it feels that the pages may actually ignite.

Lauren Oliver's Rooms is a sensational novel that easily glides between the normal and the paranormal. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, Rooms is always emotionally resonant and, despite the presence of ghosts, very, very real.

Another genre I seldom write about is YA (Young Adult), again because it tends to get plenty of attention elsewhere. Lauren Oliver has gotten plenty of that for her YA titles Panic, Delirium, and Before I Fall. However, her latest work, Rooms, is for adults—and don’t let the fact that it works well for YA readers stop you from enjoying this fantastic ghost story. The Walker family is ready to clear out the country home where paterfamilias Richard spent his last months—and died. As his wife, children, and grandchild attempt to untangle worldly goods and last wishes, several ghosts observe and interact with them, with surprisingly eerie results. Highly recommend. Read more...

Goodreads exclusively unveiled the new cover of ROOMS along with Laura reading an excerpt from the novel today. The response online has been explosive, and there are already nearly 7,000 “to-reads” on Lauren’s ROOMS Goodreads page. Read more...

YA-bestseller Oliver’s assured adult debut skillfully weaves an innovative ghost story into a nuanced domestic drama...and the story culminates with an ending that arrives in dramatic and surprising ways. Read more...