The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones Audio Book

It was true: a small group of people was emerging from the gloom of the drive onto the gravel, slowly and all together. It was difficult to see how many of them there were. ‘Have you come from the accident?’ asked Clovis. ‘We were told to expect you.’ One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor – and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.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 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. The Uninvited Guests is the bewitching new novel from number one bestseller Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author of The Outcast triumphs in this sinister drama of dark surprises – where social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps propriety – and all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence. ‘A brilliant novel... At once a shimmering comedy of manners and a disturbing commentary on class’ ANN PATCHETT