num_pages: 270
description: When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? And is her employer Hannah an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a lunatic, or a witch?Alternate edition linked here.
language: English
title: The Unicorn
titlecomplete: The Unicorn
characters: Violet Evercreech, Hannah Crean-Smith, Alice Lejour, Jamesie Evercreech, Denis Nolan, Peter Crean-Smith, Effingham Cooper, Max Lejour, Gerald Scottow, Marian Taylor, Philip 'Pip' Lejour
genres: Classics, British Literature, Ireland, Mystery, Gothic, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3092
places: England
publisher: Vintage