I’ve got a wonderful treat for all of our book lovers out there! We’re giving away five copies of The Radleys by bestselling author Matt Haig! The Radleys is a widely acclaimed novel that takes a unique approach to vampires by telling the witty tale of a vampire family attempting to live an ordinary life. See giveaway details below!
The Radleys official plot description:
“Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied at school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has recently become a vegan. They are typical, that is, save for one devastating exception: Peter and Helen are vampires and have—for seventeen years—been abstaining by choice from a life of chasing blood in the hope that their children could live normal lives.
One night, Clara finds herself driven to commit a shocking—and disturbingly satisfying—act of violence, and her parents are forced to explain their history of shadows and lies. A police investigation is launched that uncovers a richness of vampire history heretofore unknown to the general public. And when the malevolent and alluring Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw the police off Clara’s trail, he winds up throwing the whole house into temptation and turmoil and unleashing a host of dark secrets that threaten the Radleys’ marriage.
The Radleys is a moving, thrilling, and radiant domestic novel that explores with daring the lengths a parent will go to protect a child, what it costs you to deny your identity, the undeniable appeal of sin, and the everlasting, iridescent bonds of family love. Read it and ask what we grow into when we grow up, and what we gain—and lose—when we deny our appetites.”
GIVEAWAY DETAILS
To enter into the giveaway all you have to do is send an email titled “The Radleys” to contest@darkness.com telling me why you want the book. On October 16, 2011 I will pick five winners for a copy of The Radleys.
Added note: the winner has 48 hours to respond, if they don’t within that time then the book goes to someone else, so make sure to check your email on the 16th!
– Moonlight
can I enter? I’m from Belgium ?
Yes, everyone can enter :)
Very interesting. Vampires able to biologically produce children fly in the face of traditional “undead” folklore. The book’s plot description seems to imply this universe’s vampires are living beings.
If I don’t win this, I’ll buy it. I’m intrigued to see how Haig will explain everything.
the book has arrived !! can’t wait till I can start reading it :D
I got my book today! Thank you again for having this contest :)