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The Children''s Home

English

By (author): Charles Lambert

Described as 'beautifully written and crafted' by Daily Mail, The Children's Home is a beguiling, disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who unexpectedly visit a disfigured recluse in his country home.

'A beautiful and uncanny novel' Jenny Offill, author of Weather

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 Morgan's lone tether to the outside world, is as taken with the children as Morgan, and begins to spend more time in Morgan's library. But the children behave strangely. They show a prescient understanding of Morgan'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 Morgan's mind.

The Children'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 grotesque - as well as the glimmers of goodness - buried deep within the soul.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Feb 2016
  • Publisher: Gallic Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910709009

About Charles Lambert

Charles Lambert is the author of several novels short stories and the memoir With a Zero at its Heart which was voted one of The Guardian readers Ten Best Books of the Year in 2014. In 2007 he won an O. Henry Award for his short story The Scent of Cinnamon. His first novel Little Monsters was longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His novel Prodigal was shortlisted for the Polari Prize for LGBTQ writing in 2019. Born in England Charles Lambert has lived in central Italy since 1980.

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