- Published: 15 February 2013
- ISBN: 9780099563693
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
The Uninvited Guests
- Published: 15 February 2013
- ISBN: 9780099563693
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
The Uninvited Guests is at once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class. It is so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment. It is a brilliant novel
ANN PATCHETT, author of State of Wonder
What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen, here is love and error in a ramshackle manor house complete with railway survivors, a birthday party and a pony. I was completely captivated by its madcap nature and then, utterly unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became. Passing like a spring fever, here is a fairy tale that stays with you long after it is gone. I couldn't put it down
SARAH BLAKE, author of The Postmistress
What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests is a very clever novel
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, author of Elegy for Eddie
This creepy and entertaining tale unfolds around a fascinating cast of charactesr, and Jones's loving eye for period detail misses nothing
Clare Longrigg, Psychologies
Fans of The Outcast and Small Wars won't be disappointed. Wonderfully spooky and atmospheric
Viv Groskop, Red
With its Mitfordesque dialogue and pacy plot, this is a deliciously fun read
Beatrice Hodgkin, Easy Living
What a delicious literary cocktail Sadie Jones's latest novel is: part suspense, part Edwardian romcom, richly evocative of time and place... It's a spiffing tale and, even though it is at bottom a metaphysical love story, it is far more believable than Downton Abbey
Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
A modern Mitford saga
ASOS Magazine
Cooly playful...the luscious prose is precisely steered
Helen Dunmore, Guardian
The Uninvited Guests is a bizarre and exuberant comedy of manners, combining elements of romance with those of the carnival....it is a great deal of fun, and a welcome alternative to more traditional country-house dramas
Hannah Rosefield, Literary Review
The prose is visceral, rich with "the smell of many wounds", and thick with painterly detail
Sunday Telegraph
Award-winning Sadie Jones' third novel is her best yet. Hugely enjoyable with a superb, supernatural twist
Tablet
Dazzlingly well-written. The style is exuberant and extremely funny. This is a midsummer's night dream of a book, mythic and unforgettable
Financial Times
Darkly humorous, quirky and engrossing, this is a ghostly tale full of twists and turns
Choice Magazine
She takes relish in recreating a familiar Edwardian landscape, peopled by eligible cads and imperious dowagers... Jones’s highly combustible period piece makes the dramas at Downton look like a stroll in the park
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
I will be surprised if I read anything stranger this year but I can’t help admiring Jones’s whimsical invention and the quality of her writing
Vanessa Berridge, Daily Express
Stylish, witty and inventive
Independent on Sunday
Beautifully written with real popular appeal, this cannot fail to be another winner
Sunday Herald
A creepy tale….set in a country house awash with secrets and strange happenings
Bella magazine
Highly entertaining… An elegant comedy of manners with the usual undercurrents of jealousy, desire and conflicting loyalties… Jones shows that she can turn her talent for storytelling to a more stylised form with a light and playful touch, and without compromising her sharp insights into the human heart
Stephanie Merritt, Observer
An intelligent and poignant reflection on death and loss… a fabulous read
Lesley Mc Dowell, Glasgow Sunday Herald
Sadie Jones…enters new literary territory with a whimsical Edwardian farce that takes its lead from the darker offerings of Saki and JB Priestley...The novel's denouement is satisfyingly outlandish
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
With elegant ease, Jones spins a good old-fashioned comedy of manners
Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph