The Children's Home: A Novel

The Children's Home: A Novel

For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctorâ€”and the startling revelations their behavior evokes.

In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira and David, appear. Morgan takes them in, giving them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then more children begin to show up.

Dr. Crane, the town physician and Morganâ€™s lone tether to the outside world, is as taken with the children as Morgan, and begins to spend more time in Morganâ€™s library. But the children behave strangely. They show a prescient understanding of Morganâ€™s past, and their bizarre discoveries in the mansion attics grow increasingly disturbing. Every day the children seem to disappear into the hidden rooms of the estate, and perhaps, into the hidden corners of Morganâ€™s mind.

The Childrenâ€™s Home is a genre-defying, utterly bewitching masterwork, an inversion of modern fairy tales like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass, in which children visit faraway lands to accomplish elusive tasks. Lambert writes from the perspective of the visited, weaving elements of psychological suspense, Jamesian stream of consciousness, and neo-gothic horror, to reveal the inescapable effects of abandonment, isolation, and the grotesqueâ€”as well as the glimmers of goodnessâ€”buried deep within the soul.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-01-05
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-01-05
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

The Children's Home: A Novel

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