NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND KELLY MACDONALD

FAMILIES. SOMETIMES THEY'RE A BLOODY NIGHTMARE . . .

Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother Rowan finally discover why they can't sleep, can't eat a Thai salad without fear of asphyxiation and can't go outside unless they're smothered in Factor 50.

With a visit from their lethally louche Uncle Will and an increasingly suspicious police force, life in Bishopthorpe is about to change. Drastically.

"Addictive" - * Daily Mail *

"Highly recommended" - * Observer *

"Great fun" - * Vogue *

"Red-blooded fiction at its most seductive" - * Sunday Telegraph *

"Haig's very original spin on the [vampire] myth is insightful, frightening and uplifting" - * Guardian *

"Delightfully eccentric . . . a strangely moving portrait of a marriage" - * Financial Times *

"Delightfully new and, unusually, rather English . . . An enjoyably twisty and self-aware tale" - * Metro *

"Haig writes in addictive, bitesize chapters that pump the action along . . . All vampire fiction has a strong sexual element, but in this book, the passion's not just for the pale-faced teens" - * Daily Mail *