The Book

‘I tried this once before when I was a lot younger, but the project was just too big for me. But it was a terrific idea and it never entirely left my mind . . . and every now and then it would say write me, and eventually I did. I sure hope people like it.’ Stephen King

In Stephen King’s mesmerising new masterpiece – his biggest, most riveting novel since THE STAND – a Maine town and its inhabitants are isolated from the world by an invisible, impenetrable dome.

On an entirely normal, beautiful Autumn day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field – the Dome. Planes fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed at the wrist and people running errands in the neighbouring town are divided from their families. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet, teams up with a few intrepid citizens against the town’s corrupt politician. But time, under the Dome, is running out . . .

Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters – some heroic, some diabolical – some and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he’s ever conjured.

Some (But Not All) of Those in Chester’s Mill
on Dome Day

Town Officials
Andy Sanders, First Selectman
Jim Rennie, Second Selectman
Andrea Grinnell, Third Selectman
Sweetbriar Rose Staff
Rose Twitchell, Owner
Dale Barbara, Cook
Anson Wheeler, Dishwasher
Angie McCain, Waitress
Dodee Sanders, Waitress
Police Department
Howard ‘Duke’ Perkins, Chief
Peter Randolph, Assistant Chief
Marty Arsenault, Officer
Freddy Denton, Officer
George Frederick, Officer
Rupert Libby, Officer
Toby Whelan, Officer
Jackie Wettington, Officer
Linda Everett, Officer
Stacey Moggin, Officer/Dispatch
Junior Rennie, Special Deputy
Georgia Roux, Special Deputy
Frank DeLesseps, Special Deputy
Melvin Searles, Special Deputy
Carter Thibodeau, Special Deputy
Pastoral Care
Rev Lester Coggins, Christ the Holy Redeemer Church
Piper Libby, Congregational Church
Medical Staff
Ron Haskell, Doctor
Rusty Everett, Physicians Assistant
Ginny Tomlinson, Nurse
Dougie Twitchell, Nurse
Gina Buffalino, Volunteer Nurse
Harriet Bigelow, Volunteer Nurse

Town Kids
‘Scarecrow’ Joe McClatchey
Norrie Calvert
Benny Drake
Judy and Janelle Everett
Ollie and Rory Dinsmore

Townspeople of Note
Tommy and Willow Anderson, Owner/Operators of Dipper’s
Roadhouse
Stewart and Fernald Bowie, Owner/Operators of Bowie Funeral
Home
Joe Boxer, Dentist
Romeo Burpee, Owner/Operator of Burpee’s Department Store
Phil Bushey, Chef of Dubious Repute
Samantha Bushey, his wife
Jack Cale, Supermarket Manager
Ernie Calvert, Supermarket Manager (ret.)
Johnny Carver, Convenience Store Operator
Alden Dinsmore, Dairy Farmer
Roger Killian, Chicken Farmer
Lissa Jamieson, Town Librarian
Claire McClatchey, Scarecrow Joe’s Mom

Alva Drake, Benny’s Mom
Stubby Norman, Antique Dealer
Brenda Perkins, Sheriff Perkins’s wife
Julia Shumway, Owner/Editor of the Local Newspaper
Tony Guay, Sports Reporter
Pete Freeman, News Photographer
‘Sloppy’ Sam Verdreaux, Town Drunk

Out-of-Towners
Alice and Aidan Appleton, Dome Orphans (‘Dorphans’)
Thurston Marshall, Literary Man with Medical Skills
Carolyn Sturges, Graduate Student

Dogs of Note
Horace, Julia Shumway’s Corgi
Clover, Piper Libby’s German Shepherd
Audrey, the Everetts’ Golden Retriever

Stephen King

Stephen King has written some forty books and novellas including THE STAND, BAG OF BONES, ON WRITING and, most recently, JUST AFTER SUNSET. Many of his stories have been turned into classic films including MISERY, STAND BY ME and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. He is winner of America’s prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe awards. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.

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