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The Children's Home

by Charles Lambert · 2016

For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and… more

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Sometimes you have to give up the easy thing and do the right one,
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Rooms are never alone," said the Doctor with a laugh. "Only the people who live them can be alone.
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What sense did a mask have, he wondered, if to remove it meant nothing? He
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Besides, I would have never been a satisfactory convict. Convicts leave their mark as often and as deeply as they can.
Rooms are never alone,' said the Doctor with a laugh. 'Only the people who live in them can be alone. I am alone, perhaps, in mine.
Sometimes they passed so much time together, Morgan had the impression that his own body had been miraculously doubled, or split in half, and that beside him was the Doctor. Sometimes he thought of himself as the Doctor.
He’d never wanted to know, which is also a sort of knowing.
Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed.

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For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor,and the startling revelations their behavior evokes.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 beh

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First published
2016
Genre
Horror
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2.92 (3k ratings)
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