The uninvited guests : a novel
Jones, Sadie
The uninvited guests : a novel / Sadie Jones - First Harper Perennial edition - New York : Harper Perennial , 2013, c2012. - 262 p. ; 21 cm.
Edward Swift departs -- A dreadful accident -- Smelts and smithereens -- A most unpleasant game -- Abandon -- The resting place -- The starlight bath -- Edward Swift returns.
"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"--From publisher description.
9780062116512
2012372210
Parties----England----20th century----Fiction
Accident victims----England----20th century----Fiction
Paranormal----Fiction
England---Social life and customs---20th century----Fiction
Historical fiction
Suspense fiction
PR6110.O638 / U55 2012b
FIC JON
The uninvited guests : a novel / Sadie Jones - First Harper Perennial edition - New York : Harper Perennial , 2013, c2012. - 262 p. ; 21 cm.
Edward Swift departs -- A dreadful accident -- Smelts and smithereens -- A most unpleasant game -- Abandon -- The resting place -- The starlight bath -- Edward Swift returns.
"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"--From publisher description.
9780062116512
2012372210
Parties----England----20th century----Fiction
Accident victims----England----20th century----Fiction
Paranormal----Fiction
England---Social life and customs---20th century----Fiction
Historical fiction
Suspense fiction
PR6110.O638 / U55 2012b
FIC JON
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