Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death in the painful days before his own. Meanwhile Nick and his wife Fran try to unite their increasingly fractious family by organizing the children into decorating the living room. Gradually, as the old wallpaper is peeled away an obscence portrait of an Edwardian family is revealed. The drawing is an exercise in hate, revealing the history of their house and casting a terrifying shadow over the family.
- ISBN10 1429927739
- ISBN13 9781429927734
- Publish Date 1 December 2000 (first published 29 October 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English