The Children's Home [electronic resource]
Charles Lambert2025
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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.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 ch...
Main title:
The Children's Home [electronic resource] / Charles Lambert
Author:
Charles Lambert, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Pushkin Press, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (185 pages, 1888008.0 Bytes)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781805334484
Language:
English
BRN:
528341
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |