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Susan Hill is one of the most successful and versatile writers of of her generation, well-known for non-fiction on the countryside, domesticity and the family, for children's books and for novels of many kinds. On the one hand, she writes crime (the Simon Serrrailler novels, about a small community in a cathedral town) and on the other she wins prestigious prizes for literary novels which are set texts for A levels and CGSEs. The Beacon belongs to a genre that she has made her own: literary novellas which are short yet punchy, full of menace and feeling, and include her best-selling ghost stories, The woman in Black, Mist in the Mirror and The Man in the Picture. Susan Hill lives in Gloucestshire, where she runs her own small publishing company, Longbarn Books, and writes a popular blog.
A moving, evocative and rewarding novel The Times A brilliantly eerie little tale...with a very adroitly handled contemporary theme: the misery memoir Scotland on Sunday The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of truth, mental health and memory... Ideas about wasted lives, about grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about rank injustice are all here in a novel of great structural and stylistic control Guardian Magnificent...It is all done so well, so wisely, that this short book is richly satisfying...it is a little masterpiece Daily Telegraph Captivating... There is, from the start, a highly charged atmosphere of anxiety and ambiguity...the suspense and mystery work perfectly, and for this Hill's economy is exactly what is needed Financial Times
