num_pages: 270
description: When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number of weird mysteries and involved in a drama she only partly understands.
language: English
title: The Unicorn
titlecomplete: The Unicorn
characters: Effingham Cooper, Jamesie Evercreech, Violet Evercreech, Marian Taylor, Alice Lejour, Philip 'Pip' Lejour, Gerald Scottow, Peter Crean-Smith, Max Lejour, Denis Nolan, Hannah Crean-Smith
genres: 20th Century, Ireland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Gothic, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 3092
places: England
publisher: Penguin Books