In some ways this is the most conventional horror novel Newman has written since Jago, with ordinary people dealing with a supernatural eruption in their lives. With a title like that it's to be expected. A dysfunctional family moves into a haunted house. Things occur. The family isn't just dysfunctional, it's on the brink of collapse, with all the members, except perhaps the youngest, Tim, complicit in the impending disaster, and all the members, including Tim, left emotionally and psychologically scarred.

At first, a miracle occurs. The specialness of the House is immediately apparent, and the growing sense of benign otherworldly powers at work is gradually accepted, and for once, everything seems fine. But the past isn't done with them, and more importantly their own worse selves aren't done with them. Feeding and fed by the ghostly presences in the house, things take a dark and horrible turn.

With the family imploding in a welter of modern neuroses and the setting by turns idyllic and darkly sinister, this is a clever tale of haunting as a manifestation of psychological and emotional horror, Can the family find the strength to overcome their own weaknesses and selfish delusions? Or will they allow themselves to be eaten alive by their own twisted pain? It's a riveting read to find out.