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The Uninvited Guests: A Novel av Sadie Jones
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The Uninvited Guests: A Novel (urspr publ 2012; utgåvan 2013)

av Sadie Jones (Författare)

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"One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor-and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking"--From publisher description.… (mer)
Medlem:snash
Titel:The Uninvited Guests: A Novel
Författare:Sadie Jones (Författare)
Info:Harper Perennial (2013), Edition: Reprint, 288 pages
Samlingar:Sharon's Collection, Ditt bibliotek, Lästa men inte ägda
Betyg:**
Taggar:Literature

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The Uninvited Guests av Sadie Jones (2012)

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A very enjoyable story about class, family, and doing whats right. None of these people are what you would call good, but they are doing what they think is right. From Charlotte, the matriarch of the family, to neglected Smudge, wanting to finish her "Great Undertaking". As the family and guests come together, realizing what their uninvited guests needs, they rediscover what is important to them.

The book is funny and tragic, with Smudge's Great Undertaking tying it all together - Its funny, witty, and gently says something about humanity, and that everyone needs kindness in their life. ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Mar 3, 2024 |
recommended by AP English listserv
  pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 |
Clumsy amalgam of ghost story, wicked look at British class-ism in the Edwardian era, and a soupҫon of grown-up 'Lord of the Flies', all bound up by an unlikely resolution. ( )
  LyndaInOregon | Jan 10, 2023 |
Really 2.5 stars. Good idea but characters weren't developed enough. ( )
  Ermonty | Dec 19, 2022 |
Un día de primavera de 1912, la mansión de los Torrington bulle de actividad con los preparativos para una elegante cena con motivo del vigésimo cumpleaños de Emerald. Los Torrington son una familia acomodada, que no pasa precisamente por su mejor época, compuesta por una evanescente madre, su segundo marido y tres hijos: la atractiva Emerald, Clovis, recién salido de la adolescencia, y la pequeña Smudge. Pero la celebración, a la que han acudido la joven y puntillosa Patiente, su apuesto hermano y un adinerado vecino, se ve trastocada por un trágico accidente de tren ocurrido a pocos kilómetros, lo que obliga a la familia a acoger a algunos supervivientes. Un desconocido, que decididamente no es un caballero, llega poco después y se suma a la cena. Smudge elige ese momento para llevar a cabo un proyecto secreto, que coincidirá con una estruendosa tormenta y con la creciente desazón de los supervivientes, acuciados por el hambre y el cansancio. Lo más temido, perder las formas en una velada exquisita, quedará largamente superado por las circunstancias.
  Natt90 | Nov 16, 2022 |
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How to describe The Uninvited Guests? Well, that's part of the fun. Sadie Jones' outstanding new novel starts out by offering mischievous echoes of Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs -- tempered, however, by a somewhat unsentimental vision of a decaying Edwardian England foolishly complacent in its sense of privilege and entitlement. But by the end, we have landed somewhere else: into a surrealistic universe reminiscent of filmmaker Luis Bunuel at his most unsettling. Also, let it be noted, into an eerily convincing ghost story...Further evidence that Sadie Jones is a stunningly original writer. The Uninvited Guests is her best book yet.
 
Downton Abbey meets The Others, anyone?..The result is a playful and rollicking tale, with writing that crackles with originality and wit. The supernatural element is not truly frightening and never threatens to dominate proceedings; it instead acts as a conduit for the main characters' journeys.
 
Full marks to them for publishing it in a way that accurately reflects its complexities. All the same, some of Sadie Jones's readers are likely to be a little bewildered....The novel is a ghost story, but disappointingly the ghosts are sad or sinister rather than scary...Stylish, witty and inventive it may be, but The Uninvited Guests is perhaps too much about the writer at play to satisfy Sadie Jones's hungry fans.
 
The Woman in Black meets Downton Abbey in this happy marriage of ghost story and country house dramaSadie Jones's highly entertaining third novel seems perfectly conceived to appeal to two current popular tastes – our fascination with the Edwardian country house and the revival of the English ghost story. The Uninvited Guests marks a stylistic departure for Jones too – on the surface the tone is lighter and more comic than her two previous novels...ones shows that she can turn her talent for storytelling to a more stylised form with a light and playful touch, and without compromising her sharp insights into the human heart.
 
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Since her marriage to Edward Swift, three years after the sudden death of her first husband Horace Torrington, Charlotte had changed her position at the breakfast table in order to accomodate her new husband's needs: specifically, aiding him in the spreading of toast and cutting of meat, owing to his having suffered the loss of his left arm at the age of twenty-three in an unfortunate encounter with the narrow wheels of a speeding gig, out of which he had fallen on the driveway of his then home in County Wicklow.
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"One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor-and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking"--From publisher description.

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