Why did I love this book?
A book that frightened me so much I genuinely had to sleep with the lights on. I love domestic horror and the discomfort of a family setting and Tremblay’s novel digs deep into this. A Head Full of Ghosts centres around a fourteen-year-old girl displaying signs of acute schizophrenia and the methods her family uses to exorcise her demons. At a time when I’d grown weary of so much modern horror this book really got under my skin.
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The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to halt Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show.Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls the terrifying events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets…
