The House at Midnight has sold over 25,000 copies in the UK, and rights have sold in the US, Germany, Holland and Italy Very promotable young British novelist whose first novel had blanket publicity and rave national press reviews Package to enforce Lucie Whitehouse's successful branding - the perfect pickupable spring read for 2010

'Whitehouse writes marvellously in an emotionally hypersensitive, lyrical, Maggie O'Farrell sort of way' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail 'Playing the reader like a trout on a line, Whitehouse creates an ever-shifting tale in which a sure sense of time and place hunkers down alongside a grinding feeling of impending doom ... Much like du Maurier's Cornwall and Tartt's Vermont, Whitehouse's Isle of Wight is as significant a character as any human within its confines ... Whitehouse has written a smart, flirtatious game of lit-tease. The reader is kept speculating but information is never held back to the extent that it looks like authorial scheming. The result is gripping, believable and, at its best, unnerving' Independent on Sunday 'Expert story-weaver Lucie Whitehouse ... compelling' InStyle 'A post-Du Maurier domestic gothic thriller in the Maggie O'Farrell/ Sophie Hannah mode. Whitehouse is a skilful, attentive writer' Guardian

Lucie Whitehouse was born in Warwickshire in 1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in London. She is author of The House at Midnight.