TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Sadie
TI  - The uninvited guests
SN  - 0062116509
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Accident victims
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Manors
KW  - England
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Paranormal fiction
KW  - Parties
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Suspense fiction
N1  - Edward Swift departs -- A dreadful accident -- Smelts and smithereens -- A most unpleasant game -- Abandon -- The resting place -- The starlight bath -- Edward Swift returns
N2  - "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."--Dust jacket
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