Simon Vance
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Language
English
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"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly. One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens...