The Way Inn
Reviews
Wiles...has a magnificent sense of comic timing but also a handy way with sudden violence. THE WAY INN is Terence Conran meets HP Lovecraft. It is Bulgakov staged in the Tate, Kafka as a new Ikea furniture range. Wiles writes beautiful prose, stages exquisitely painful set-piece scenes of high comedy, and in Neil Double has created a John Self for the Marriott generation. THE WAY INN is funny, clever and thrilling, its central conceit disturbing enough to demand that you read it outside, if you can.
Chilling … The twisted novelty of the central idea is neat and memorable.
An ingenious and smartly funny novel
A follow-up to last year’s CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS, taking a simple premise – a businessman staying in a chain of bland hotels – and horrifyingly turning it on its head. It’ll make your skin crawl
I devoured this impressive and enthralling novel. If you ever explored hotel corridors or played in hotel lifts as a child, be glad it wasn't in this hotel.
An ingenious and smartly funny novel.
Let’s start with some hyperbole: THE WAY INN is the first Gothic novel of the junior executive suite. The first loyalty-programme based horror story. The first literary work in which composite laminates are a central plot device. But if that’s not enough for you, read on.
THE WAY INN is a subtle and beautifully crafted tragicomic thought experiment that leads us to rethink our relationships with commerce, the built environment and the work we do. It’s also a hilarious satire with elements reminiscent of JG Ballard’s disaster novels and the philosophical horror of Thomas Ligotti.
Utterly wonderful.
THE WAY INN is funny, clever and thrilling, its central conceit disturbing enough to demand that you read it outside, if you can.
I loved THE WAY INN, [which] strikes me as the first authentically post-Ballardian vision of the world as it has become and as it is going to continue to be…Will Wiles is a mature, expert and wonderfully original talent.
Wonderfully original and bitingly funny…the finest social comedy…In the hierarchy of dystopian novels, THE WAY INN is special because it accurately describes the dystopia we are already living in. It is a stunningly good read.
An ingenious and smartly funny novel.
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