The sequel to Replica, titled Ringer, is her most recent novel and was released October 3rd, 2017. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by AwesomenessTV Before I Fall is now a major motion picture and opened in theaters March of 2017. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. “With poetic prose, Oliver weaves a satisfying story arc for each character, and readers will be left with a feeling of peaceful acceptance.Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the president of production. The house’s breathing residents and ghosts alike find freedom, and the story culminates with an ending that arrives in dramatic and surprising ways.” “Oliver makes vivid use of both dead and living characters-all of whom are trapped in the past and striving toward a happier existence-to narrate her intricate, suspenseful story. ~ Ivy Pochoda, Author of Visitation Street
At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, Rooms is always emotionally resonant and, despite the presence of ghosts, very, very real."
"Lauren Oliver's Rooms is a sensational novel that easily glides between the normal and the paranormal. "A smoky and realistic ghost story that subverts cliché.This satisfying novel will be enjoyed by Oliver’s fans and bring new ones to the fold." When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide-with cataclysmic results. The living and dead are each haunted by painful truths that will soon surface with explosive force. Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself-in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a light bulb. Jostling for space, memory, and supremacy, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Prim Alice and the cynical Sandra, long dead former residents bound to the house, linger within its claustrophobic walls. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance.īut the Walkers are not alone. Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. Lauren Oliver makes her adult debut with this mesmerizing story in a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways. A novel narrated by two ghosts that inhabit the walls of an old house.
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