“The opening pages read like an episode of Downton Abbey…But Jones has something more uncanny in mind, and when the party is interrupted by survivors of a nearby train wreck, the comedy of manners turns downright surreal…Jones’s effervescent writing keeps the course steady—even as her characters shed their civilized veneers.”
—Ellen Shapiro, People (four stars)
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(hc) 9780062116505 - Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Gernert Company
- On Sale: 1/8/2013
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- 288 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
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The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones
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- 5/1/2012
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"Entertaining.Jones is a writer of admirable narrative energy.with a painfully accurate, almost Stoppardian ear for dialogue and a delightful streak of cruelty that flirts with.the gothic."
- Lev Grossman, Time Magazine
“The Uninvited Guests is at once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class. It is so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment. It is a brilliant novel.”
- Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder
“What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests a very clever novel.”
- Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling author of Elegy for Eddie
"Vividly atmospheric.niftily deceptive.a story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion.A sublimely clever book."
- Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle
“Delicious…comparisons with Downton Abbey will be both inevitable and fair.”
- Wall Street Journal
"Defied my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know."
- Maile Meloy, Nationally Bestselling Author of Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
"What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen, here is love and error in a ramshackle manor house complete with railway survivors, a birthday party and a pony. I was completely captivated by its madcap nature and then, utterly unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became. Passing like a spring fever, here is a fairy tale that stays with you long after it is gone. I couldn't put it down."
- Sarah Blake, New York Times Bestselling author of The Postmistress
"A remarkable dark comedy...Jones's characters are delightfully eccentric, the wit delightfully droll, and the prose simply delightful. But for all its charm, this is a serious book."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A delightful, eerie novel.Jones expertly balances the whimsical and the strange, building things to a climax of abandon, terror and restitution.Engrossing, enjoyable."
- Philip Womack, Telegraph
"Excellent characterization.a plot sprinkled with hints of secrets to be revealed.a page-turning read that blurs the edges of the country house mystery."
- Library Journal (starred review)
"Jones' clever prose and bright tone heighten her characters and setting.she adroitly draws the layers of character that are exposed as shameful secrets come to light."
- Atlantic Monthly
"Enthralling.An English countryside setting, an ever-twisting plot, and gorgeously precise writing add up to one delightful novel."
- Martha Stewart Whole Living Magazine