The Servants

For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from...
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Author: Michael Marshall Smith
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The Servants by Smith, Michael Marshall

The Servants

€26,06

The Servants

€26,06
Author: Michael Marshall Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Michael Marshall Smith
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 09/09/2008
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.40w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780061494161


Review Citation(s):
Romantic Times 09/01/2008 pg. 72 - Very Good
Asimov's Science Fiction 09/01/2009 pg. 107

About the Author
Smith, Michael Marshall: -

Michael Marshall Smith attended Cambridge University, where he spent the majority of his time writing and performing comedy with the Cambridge Footlights, which led to two series for the BBC. He's the author of the trilogy comprised of The Straw Men, The Upright Man, and Blood of Angels. He lives in England.

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