The Uninvited Guests

Author(s): Sadie Jones

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

The prizewinning and No 1 bestselling author Sadie Jones moves to a gorgeous and bewitching historical setting in a blissful new novel full of surprises.


 


One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury 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 are not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go 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 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 number one bestseller Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author of The Outcast 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.

2012. A trade paperback copy in very good condition.

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"What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen, ...I was captivated by its madcap nature and then, unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became." - Sarah Blake, New York Times

The Uninvited Guests is Sadie Jones' third novel. Her first novel, The Outcast was the winner of the Costa First Novel Award. It was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize and was a Richard and Judy Summer Reads Number One bestseller. Her second novel, Small Wars was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Sadie Jones lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9780701186722
  • : Chatto & Windus
  • : Chatto & Windus
  • : 0.36
  • : January 2012
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : February 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 272
  • : en
  • : Paperback
  • : Sadie Jones