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THE UNINVITED GUESTS
By: Sadie Jones
Harper
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
277 pages
ISBN: 0062116509
EAN: 9780062116505
Kindle: B006ICVRCO
Hardcover / e-Book
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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 manorโand 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 surprisesโwhere social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps proprietyโand all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - June 6, 2012
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