The Uninvited Guests
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780701186715 (0701186712)
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 259
Edition language: English
Not my kind of book. It just wasn't enough of anything, and I didn't care about any of the characters.
I liked this book a lot more than most people seemed to. I was really interested in the characters and setting, though the story didn't really captivate me until the guests in question arrived. Then it went in a direction I wasn't expecting, and I loved it. However, once the major conflict was resol...
Series: NonePublication Date: May 1, 2012My Rating: 5/5GoodreadsBlurbOne late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of myst...
Such a strange book. I'm not really sure if I liked it or not. The things that happen, it's more like a demon is amongst them egging them not. But it's not. And the pony coming down the steps and the face (you'll have to read it to understand), wasn't very pivotal to me but is in the book.
A group of friends — each with their own worries and cares — gathers for a dinner party, which is interrupted when a group of lower-class travelers arrives, demanding shelter after an unfortunate railroad accident.The children, too, feeling that they were at the end of a line, as children do (for in...
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