The Children’s Home A Novel
The Children’s Home A Novel by Charles Lambert is a first edition published by Simon and Schuster on January 5, 2016. This 210-page work presents a narrative centered around Morgan Fletcher, a disfigured recluse living in a sprawling estate. His life takes a turn when two children, Moira and David, unexpectedly arrive, prompting a series of unsettling revelations that intertwine their behavior with Morgan’s mysterious past.
Readers will find a blend of psychological suspense and literary elements as the story unfolds within the mansion’s hidden corners. The children’s strange actions and their uncanny understanding of Morgan’s history create an atmosphere of intrigue and tension. As more children appear, the narrative delves into themes of isolation and the complexities of human connection, inviting exploration of the darker aspects of the human psyche. This edition is presented in English and offers a unique take on the traditional fairy tale, challenging perceptions of abandonment and the nature of goodness.
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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 behave strangely. They show a prescient understanding of Morgan’s past, and their bizarre discoveries in the mansion attics grow increasingly disturbing. Every day the children seem to disappear into the hidden rooms of the estate, and perhaps, into the hidden corners of Morgan’s mind.
The Children’s Home is a genre-defying, utterly bewitching masterwork, an inversion of modern fairy tales like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass, in which children visit faraway lands to accomplish elusive tasks. Lambert writes from the perspective of the visited, weaving elements of psychological suspense, Jamesian stream of consciousness, and neo-gothic horror, to reveal the inescapable effects of abandonment, isolation, and the grotesque—as well as the glimmers of goodness—buried deep within the soul.
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