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'A brilliant novel ... At once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class.' Ann Patchett One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. One of their number (who is most definitely <i>not</i> a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking. <i>The Uninvited Guests</i> is the bewitching new novel from number one bestseller Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author of <i>The Outcast</i> triumphs in this frightening yet sinister drama of dark surprises - where social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps propriety - and all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.
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Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
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- 2012
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- Title
- Uninvited Guests
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sadie Jones
- Publisher
- Random House Export
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0701186720
- ISBN13
- 9780701186722
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Supernatural Phenomena, Mysterious, Mysteries, Ghosts and Apparitions, Gothic
- Description
- 'A brilliant novel ... At once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class.' Ann Patchett One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. One of their number (who is most definitely <i>not</i> a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking. <i>The Uninvited Guests</i> is the bewitching new novel from number one bestseller Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author of <i>The Outcast</i> triumphs in this frightening yet sinister drama of dark surprises - where social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps propriety - and all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.