Twenty-something single-mother Minna has a taste for spirits as well. Their children are not faring much better. A funeral, a burial, a will-reading, and a chance to go over some of the events, the challenges, the hopes and disappointments, the failings of their lives.Įx-wife Caroline tries to lubricate the process with a steady ingestion of alcohol. Richard’s recent passing is what has brought the Walker family back together for a spell. Death is purification, a cleansing, a cure.If death ever takes a holiday I expect he might vacation in Coral River, the upstate New York locale where Richard Walker lives…well…lived. Or maybe it’s life that is the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. We’ve taken over the house, its insulation and its plumbing-we’ve made it our own. You can visit her online at We’ve nested in the walls like bacteria. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms.Ī graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU's MFA program, Lauren Oliver divides her time between New York, Connecticut, and a variety of airport lounges. Her novels for middle grade readers include The Spindlers, Liesl & Po, and the Curiosity House series, co-written with H. 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. Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the president of production.

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. 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

Rooms by Lauren Oliver