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Harper
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
277 pages
ISBN: 0062116509
EAN: 9780062116505
Kindle: B006ICVRCO
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Fiction Family Life
One 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
mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek
shelter at the ramshackle manor—and the household is thrown
into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake
covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of
visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems,
will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search
for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One
of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman)
makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor
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. The Uninvited Guests is the bewitching new novel from the
critically acclaimed Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author
triumphs in this frightening yet delicious 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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