The Monsters of Templeton
  • Published: 22 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099515722
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $24.99

The Monsters of Templeton

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX

'Everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more' Stephen King

'Bold and beautiful' Lorrie Moore

'Pleasurably surreal' Guardian
'Will give you paper cuts from turning pages' Marie Claire

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor.

The same day, Willie discovers a hard truth about her long-lost father's identity and a prehistoric monster is discovered in the nearby Lake Glimmerglass, bringing frenzy to the quiet town and her life.

As Willie investigates her family tree, dark secrets come to light, past and present are blurred and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is an extraordinary novel by literary virtuoso Lauren Groff.

'A vivid tale of unearthing past truths, horrors and lies' Good Housekeeping

  • Published: 22 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099515722
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is the author of three New York Times bestselling novels – Fates and Furies (named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015), The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia – as well as the story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2017, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, the Atlantic, One Story and Ploughshares, and in several of the annual The Best New American Stories anthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

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Praise for The Monsters of Templeton

Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more ... There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that.

Stephen King

THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore.

Lorrie Moore

Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic.

Easy Living

This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of "monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells". Yet Lauren Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all...as Willie slays her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric social history, origin myth and literary biography... the true 'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets.

Metro

This has an opening to die for ... a riveting read

Scotland on Sunday

humourous and magical

Sainsbury's Magazine

Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more. Willie is a funny, sexy, plucky heroine; her Mom--a once-upon-a-time hippie who's gone Baptist but not square--is a hoot; her family history is a funhouse through which Willie must wander in order to find her father. Best of all is Templeton, a town that will remind readers of Ray Bradbury at his most magical. There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that.

Stephen King

Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more ... There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that.

Stephen King

THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore.

Lorrie Moore

Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic.

Easy Living

This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of "monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells". Yet Lauren Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all...as Willie slays her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric social history, origin myth and literary biography... the true 'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets.

Metro

This has an opening to die for ... a riveting read

Scotland on Sunday

humourous and magical

Sainsbury's Magazine