Julie says . . . "Big old houses contain mysteries: light switches that don't seem to power anything; the odd interior window; nailed-up doors in basements that lead to goodness knows where. When Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters move to a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, they don't much notice the long sealed door in a dusty corner of the basement. But just because someone else thought you could lock away danger that doesn't mean it can't come back . . . thump, thump, thump."

Julie says . . . "Sometimes the world portrayed in dystopian novels is, while thrilling and fascinating, a little too unlike our own to hit home with me. Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is set in what is very much our world with one crucial difference: the Earth's rotation has begun to slow. As the characters, so much like us, confront this momentous challenge, they must, some how, continue to live their lives."