The Children's Home
Monthly Membership
Cancel anytime!
Memberships will renew every month
One credit every month on renewal
You can spend 1 credit every month to get an audiobook
“Disquieting…surely one of the year’s most bizarre stories….Lambert’s subtle prose enhances the novel’s creepiness.”
New York Times
A Kirkus Reviews Pick for Winter’s Best Bets
A Bustle Pick for January 2016
A “disquieting” (The New York Times) and mesmerizing tale from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor—a tale that “[stirs] the imagination in the manner of Roald Dahl or C.S. Lewis” (Winnepeg Free Press).
In a sprawling estate 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. 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.
Praise
Ratings & Reviews
Review guidelines0% of listeners recommend it of readers recommend it
Be the first to rate this audiobook Be the first to rate this book
No one has rated or reviewed The Children's Home yet. Listened to it? Would you recommend it? No one has rated or reviewed The Children's Home yet. Read it? Would you recommend it?
Rate and review this book, just like in the Downpour app.
Listened to this one? Read this one?
Share what you thought and help others decide.
Sign in to write a reviewYour account can't post reviews right now.
No written reviews yet
0 listeners have rated this audiobook, but no one has written about it yet. Tell others what you thought.
Sign in to write a review