A Debut Novel For Fans Of Sarah Perry And Kate Morton: When A Young Woman Is Tasked With Safeguarding A Natural History Collection As It Is Spirited Out Of London During Wwii, She Discovers Her New Manor Home Is A Place Of Secrets And Terror Instead Of Protection. In August 1939, Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright Arrives At Lockwood Manor To Oversee A Natural History Museum Collection, Whose Contents Have Been Taken Out Of London For Safekeeping. She Is Unprepared For The Scale Of Protecting Her Charges From Party Guests, Wild Animals, The Elements, The Tyrannical Major Lockwood And Luftwaffe Bombs. Most Of All, She Is Unprepared For The Beautiful And Haunted Lucy Lockwood. For Lucy, Who Has Spent Much Of Her Life Cloistered At Lockwood Suffering From Bad Nerves, The Arrival Of The Museum Brings With It New Freedoms. But It Also Resurfaces Memories Of Her Late Mother, And Nightmares In Which Lucy Roams Lockwood Hunting For Something She Has Lost. When The Animals Start To Move Of Their Own Accord, And Exhibits Go Missing, They Begin To Wonder What Exactly It Is That They Might Need Protection From. And As The Disasters Mount Up, It Is Not Only Hetty's Future Employment That Is In Danger, But Her Own Sanity Too. There's Something, Or Someone, In The House. Someone Stalking Her Through Its Darkened Corridors...
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- 20th Century
- World War II
- 20th Century
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Mariner Books
Author : Healey, Jane
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2020-03-10
Number Of Pages : 352
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0358106400
ISBN-13 : 9780358106401
Item weight : 1.16 lb
Dimensions : 1.15 in x 6 in x 9 in
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