The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
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The Uninvited Guests
A Novel

Author: Sadie Jones

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 13 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/02/2012

Synopsis

A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones’s The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of Jacqueline Winspear, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs mysteries A Lesson in Secrets and Elegy for Eddie, “a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion.”

About Sadie Jones

Sadie Jones is the author of five novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the enchanting, hard-hitting novel set on the island of Cyprus during the British occupation, Small Wars; her most successful, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests, beloved of Ann Patchett and Jackie Winspear, among other; the romantic novel set in London's glamorous theatre world, Fallout; and most recently, the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Snakes. Sadie Jones lives in London. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Grace

What an odd book. It's sort of like Wodehouse's more bitter cousin (one more interested in class struggle) met up with a goth and hashed out a book proposal. The setup is that the Torrington family are about to lose the family home. While the stepfather goes off on a mission to save it, the rest pre......more

Goodreads review by Mary

Not too mysterious and just an odd book. None of the characters were likeable and, well, it was just too odd for me. I was not surprised by any supposed "twist" to the story and I never laughed out loud (not that that's required actually) as some did at this book either. It reads like a play, and if......more

Goodreads review by Blair

Despite the fact that the author's previous novels haven't appealed to me, The Uninvited Guests struck me as a must-read as soon as I heard about it, so I was delighted to discover it had been published in advance of the expected release date. Set in a grand old country house inhabitated by the Torr......more

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