Let the Right One In

**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In** n n 'The new Stephen King' The Times n Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. n n And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. n n Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. n n Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200-year-old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. n n John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge bestseller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend. And a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty. n