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The House

The House

Teresa Waugh

Sydney Otterton returns from the war penniless and moves into his crumbling family home with his wife, children and servant. What follows is a murder mystery evolving through the eyes of four characters who narrate the events in a variety of formats (journal, letters, research).
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1945. On the death of his father, Sydney, Lord Otterton finds himself heir to a crumbling country mansion, Cranfield. Despite the fact that his sinister mother has appropriated most of the family funds, the new Lord Otterton manages to persuade his wife and three children to move into the decaying house and set about restoring it to its former glory. To aid him in this task, he recruits Annie Jerrold, a faithful family servant, to be the new housekeeper. She is soon joined by a cast of weird and wonderful characters - a drunken butler, a malevolent French governess and a pair of bizarre lodgers with a rather dubious past. Added to this is an elderly Polish historian, a romantic researching the Whig aristocracy who finds himself involved in a much more intriguing plot on the discovery of some hidden family letters.

Product Description

Title - The House

Edition -

Author - Teresa Waugh

ISBN 13 - 9780753817223

Imprint - Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher - Orion Publishing Co

Date Published - 03/07/2003

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 23mm

Weight - 283 g

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