Lisey's Story

The “ haunting… tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’ s Story is a literary masterpiece— an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.

*Also an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*

Lisey lost her husband Scott, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it’ s Lisey’ s turn to face Scott’ s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo’ ya Moon. What begins as a widow’ s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.

“ Intricate. . . exhilarating” (The New Yorker), perhaps Stephen King’ s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey’ s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. It is a beautiful, “ rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death” (The Washington Post).