The Small Hand - Brossura

Masterfully done ... subtle, elegant (The Times 2010-10-16)

On chilling form (Vogue)

Short and crisply told ... The tension is built up gradually until it is taut and physical (Independent)

Beautifully evoked ... what's most impressive is what hangs between the spare lines of Hill's precise prose ... this is a wonderful piece of storytelling that does what a good story ought to do: it keeps you guessing, pulls you in (Jeremy Dyson Guardian 2010-09-25)

Superior chills from the author of The Woman in Black (Woman & Home)

A distinguished modern exponent of the genre ... The entire narrative unrolls like a carpet ... This beautifully written novel may be short, but not one word is wasted ... The sinister child, the rotting mansion, the monastery and the old books are of course familiar gothic props; but Susan Hill uses them to lend depth, as an expert cook uses familiar ingredients to enrich a new recipe, and draws out new flavours from them in the process ... highly recommended for a chilly autumn evening by the fire. And, as a bonus, the book has an exceptionally attractive cover (Spectator)

She builds suspense through easy, elegant prose ... If the proof of a good ghost story is a bad dream, this one worked for me (Intelligent Life)

On top form (Good Housekeeping)

Every bit the treat one would expect ... as ever, not a word is wasted. As seductive as it is disquieting, atmospheric and brilliantly suspenseful (The Lady 2010-09-21)

Part of the fear she conjures up, then, is a sense that this could happen to anyone ... Hill's superbly crafted tale doesn't belong to a confessional age, but it does belong to an age where we are all striving for our own identity. Where we all, secretly, long for a ghost to reach out and grip us, make us real (Lesley MacDowell Scotsman 2010-10-25)

The chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible hand ... an exceptional and bestselling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black and The Man in the Picture