The house at midnight
By: Lucie Whitehouse
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781554681631; 9781554681655
Subjects: Inheritance and succession; Fiction; Friendship; Betrayal; Country homes
Description: After the suicide of his uncle, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor in Oxfordshire. After his friends visit, Lucas becomes obsessed with home movies made at Stoneborough thirty years earlier. Caught on film is a young group that seems disturbingly similar to their own. Though the friends struggle to pull free from the house's dark influence, desire and betrayal prevade their hot, decadent summer at the claustrophobic Stoneborough.