For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the
Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London,
he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old
house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the
skateboard, while other boys his age are in school. He hates the
unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy.
Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary,
no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room.
But on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into
the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his
stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy . . . and
the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the
frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and
drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here
below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he
finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change everything.
A richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story,
The Servants marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall
Smith--the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning
author of Spares.
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollinsPublishers
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2008 |
First published: |
September 2008 |
Authors: |
Michael Marshall Smith
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
213 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-149416-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-06-149416-X |
Barcode: |
9780061494161 |
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