While I was there I contracted chicken pox and I was quarantined in a sanatorium and I was alone in a 12-bed dormitory with the door locked, with a circular window in the door that looked out on to a black and white chequerboard floored corridor off which were six doors on each side which led into different wards for children who had other diseases. I was orphaned at seven and I went to different state-run institutions and I ended up at a boarding school in the Oxfordshire countryside. I chose The Shining because it was the first book which impinged on me and made me so aware of the emotive power of literature. Your first choice is one of the most chilling books around – The Shining by Stephen King. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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