The Children's Home: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781501117398 (1501117394)
ASIN: 1501117394
Publish date: 2016-01-05
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Those who regularly read my reviews won’t be surprised to hear me say I enjoy a book that takes me by surprise and leaves me thinking about what I’ve read long after I’ve finished it. The Children’s Home may well be the most surprising, thought provoking and also baffling book I’ve ever read. In man...
'For a moment, in this passing gesture, weary with affection, exasperated at the other man's stubbornness and refusal to understand, Morgan saw David before him, the man David might have become. "Have you learned nothing from all this?" Answer: ... No, not really... Morgan is a disfigured man wh...
I've been postponing this review for weeks now because basically I still don't know what to say about it. It was by far one of the weirdest books I've ever read. But not in the weird way that I usually quite like. No, I was wondering for almost the entire book if I wasn't somehow missing what was ...
Morgan has become horribly disfigured and lives by himself except for his housekeeper Engel. Morgan doesn't really do much but catalogs books in his library.He is alive but not “ living”. Then children start appearing at his house. The first being a baby named Moira. Then more come until there are s...
I received a free copy of this ebook through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My feelings about The Children’s Home by Charles Lambert are a little ambivalent. On one hand I like the writing style, it reminds me quite a bit of Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Never Let Me Go. The author uses a disjoin...
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