Mirrorland

By Carole Johnstone

‘DARK AND DEVIOUS’ Stephen King

‘UTTERLY ENGROSSING’ Daily Mail

‘TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC’ Ruth Ware

‘TIGHTLY PLOTTED AND UTTERLY GRIPPING' Sarah Pinborough

‘A HAUNTING THRILLER’ Women’s Weekly

‘TOTALLY ABSORBING’ T.M. Logan

‘AN UNSETTLING, LABYRINTHINE TALE’ New York Times
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One twin ran. The other vanished. Neither escaped…

DON’T TRUST ANYONE
Cat’s twin sister El has disappeared. But there’s one thing Cat is sure of: her sister isn’t dead. She would have felt it. She would have known.

DON’T TRUST YOUR MEMORIES
To find her sister, Cat must return to their dark, crumbling childhood home and confront the horrors that wait there. Because it’s all coming back to Cat now: all the things she has buried, all the secrets she’s been running from.

DON’T TRUST THIS STORY…
The closer Cat comes to the truth, the closer to danger she is. Some things are better left in the past…
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‘AN ADDICTIVE SLICE OF GOTHIC’ i paper

‘TOLD WITH THUMPING HEART AND EXTRAORDINARY TENDERNESS’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave

‘THE LOVE CHILD OF GILLIAN FLYNN AND STEPHEN KING’ Greer Hendricks

READERS ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH MIRRORLAND…

‘Dark, dazzling, full of surprises and perfectly executed’ Sheri K

‘An adult fairy tale, a domestic noir and a heartbreaker, all in one’ Rebecca W

‘Creepy as hell and absolutely brilliant’ Vikkie W

‘Poignant and compelling… What an imagination to have crafted such a story’ Carol C

‘A beautifully written story that holds you enthralled from first page to last’ Sarah M

‘This is a book that will keep you awake all night’ Maria P

‘Hugely compelling…I found the entire book officially unputdownable!’ Alexandra G

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Apr 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9780008361402

Carole Johnstone

Carole Johnstone grew up in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and in her twenties relocated to Essex to work as a radiographer. She has been writing as long as she can remember and is an award-winning short story writer. She now writes full-time and lives with her husband in an old farmhouse outside Glasgow, though her heart belongs to the sea and the wild islands of the Outer Hebrides.

Reviews for Mirrorland

[Johanne Lykke Jensen · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I can't tell you why but it really didn't do a lot for me. It is fine ?‍♀️

[kristilabrie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This one gave me a few surprising twists, which isn't a usual occurrence with most mysteries I read. Well done! I'm going to have to read more from Carole Johnstone.

[drapple_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This story of twin sisters is a page turner. What happened in the past? How did one sister die? This will keep you turning pages.

[sallyelizabethmurphy · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

What the ??? Do not waste your time.

[jenn88-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I tried a few different times to get into this book over the course of a year and a half. I picked it up a few days ago and I could not put it down. It was so good. So clever and very atmospheric. The mystery surrounding El's disappearance, El and her identical twin sister's childhood, Mirrorland - everything was so intriguing and it all came together so well. Little twists were thrown in at the right moments and they were shocking. This is one that will stick with me for a while. Very impressive debut and I will definitely look for more from this author in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster Canada for an ARC.

[rumuse · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I have derived guilty pleasure from books of this type when I'm in a certain mood, but this title didn't measure up to my standards, even for what I call 'crap fiction.' It is laden with hackneyed horror tropes: sister gone missing, revisiting the creepy house of one's childhood, buried memories rising to surface, protagonist's slowly increasing disquiet, etc. etc. Simply put, the writing was not engaging or memorable. I became bored and stopped reading about halfway through.