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Start using Mumsnet PremiumPlease help me to find this book - Intruder living secretly in a house.
(16 Posts)I heard a review for this book on Radio London, last year I think. It's about someone living /hiding in a house without the owner knowing. I think they were living in the loft or an outbuilding but taking food & showering etc. when the owner goes out. I'm not sure if the intruder is known to the house owner or if they are just an admirer/stalker. I think I looked up the book at the time on Amazon & it had quite mixed reviews. I've tried looking on Amazon again and googling variations of the story, but no luck for the past few months. Does it ring a bell with anyone who thinks that they've read it or maybe a review. Thanks.
It happened IRL to a guy in Japan, didn't it?
Are you sure it wasn't a thread on mumsnet rather than a book? 
I definitely remember the author being interviewed on the radio. He may well have based it on a real life story as inspiration. I usually write the name down when I hear a book I may like but looked it up on Amazon instead. I think it was a hard back and quite expensive so I probably decided to wait for the paperback or until I could get a second hand copy.
My hairdresser just bought a very old mid terrace cottage & her boyfriend discovered that the roof space runs across all 4 cottages, with no barriers. So it is quite possible & scary to think that a neighbour could enter your property this way. A fire hazard too.
Thank you Elves I think it is! The book sounded really good in the interview but I think that the reviews may have put me off & the price. I wish my memory was better.
Iam sure that one of the first Mo Hayder books is an example of this. Certainly the first few books -the treatment and bird man are well worth a read.
Those bad reviews are certainly damning.
I read Mo Hayder's Tokyo and liked it but found Birdman to be gratuitously horrible. I've just looked on her website and Tokyo isn't mentioned there - on Amazon it seems as though it's not published in English now. Seems strange when it did so well at the time.
Oh okay, it was republished as The Devil of Nanking.
A pleasure and a calling is along those lines.
Just started reading a pleasure and a calling and although it is very different to what I would normally ready I am enjoying it a lot. Can anyone recommend any other books along similar lines?
There was a funny sweet romance book about something like this, but I can't find the title or author name. Urk.
Sukiesu is this what you are on about
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rogers_(murder_suspect)
There was a book written about him not long ago, I think it is very similar to what you are saying.
BTW if I remember correctly he lived in the attic.
I think there was a thread on mumsnet about this too, it turned out to be the OP's brother??
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