Doctor Sleep - Stephen King

This is really a terrific sequel to The Shining.
What happened to the kid from ' The Shining '?
This book takes you from the beginning after the horrific Overlook Hotel experience up intill where he is becoming an older gentleman and everything in between.
A must read for ever Stephen King fan.
Best part about this books is that you don't need to read The Shining firts, but it makes the book so much better if you do.
Doctor Sleep goes back to everything and even shows you what happened with the Overlook Hotel.
Hard to put down once you start, each page making you hungry for more.
An easy read and well written.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and devoted to their comfortable Recreational Vehicles. But they live off the 'steam' that children wiyh the 'shining' produce. 

Following a childhood haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance has been drifting for decade, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. 

Finally, he settles into a job where his remnant 'shining' power provides comfort to the dying. 

Aided by a prescient cat, Dan becomes 'Doctor Sleep'.

Then Dan meet the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest 'shining' ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to battle for Abra's soul and survival...