num_pages: 272
description: One late spring evening in 1912 in the kitchens at Sterne preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manorand the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.Evening turns to stormy night and a most unpleasant parlor 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 the critically acclaimed Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author triumphs in this frightening yet delicious drama of dark surpriseswhere social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps proprietyand all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.
language: English
title: The Uninvited Guests
publisher: Knopf Canada