The Stranger's Guide to Talliston
John Tarrow
Publisher: Unbound
Summary
The house and gardens featured in the story are real. The author spent twenty-five years transforming an ordinary house in an ordinary street into what the Sunday Times called 'Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home'. The project is internationally famous.Talliston House is featured in the Netflix-commissioned programme Amazing Interiors, which will reach an audience close to 100 million in 120 countries.The 'Stranger’s Guide' journal mentioned in the novel is a real entity; a leather-bound, hand-calligraphed volume that could appear as a companion publication (like The Spiderwick Field Guide).For fans of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Neil Gaiman's Stardust, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Tad Williams' Otherland.