The Uninvited Guests
&#8220;A comedy of manners that turns downright surreal&#8230;Jones&#8217;s effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers.&#8221; (Ellen Shapiro, People Four Star Review)&#8220;Entertaining&#8230;Jones is a writer of admirable narrative energy&#8230;with a painfully accurate, almost Stoppardian ear for dialogue and a delightful streak of cruelty that flirts with&#8230;the gothic.&#8221; (Lev Grossman, Time Magazine)&#8220;Vividly atmospheric&#8230;niftily deceptive&#8230;a story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion&#8230;A sublimely clever book.&#8221; (Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;Delicious&#8230;comparisons with Downton Abbey will be both inevitable and fair.&#8221; (Wall Street Journal)&#8220;&#8230;THE UNINVITED GUESTS&#8230;defied my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.&#8221; (Maile Meloy, Nationally Bestselling Author of BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT)&#8220;What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen,&#8230;I was captivated by its madcap nature and then, unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became.&#8221; (Sarah Blake, New York Times Bestselling Author of THE POSTMISTRESS)&#8220;A brilliant novel&#8230;At once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class&#8230;so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment.&#8221; (Ann Patchett, New York Times Bestselling Author of STATE OF WONDER)&#8220;What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors&#8230;in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller.&#8221; (Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling Author of ELEGY FOR EDDIE)&#8220;A remarkable dark comedy...Jones&#8217;s characters are delightfully eccentric, the wit delightfully droll, and the prose simply delightful. But for all its charm, this is a serious book&#8230;&#8221; (Publishers Weekly (starred review))&#8220;A delightful, eerie novel&#8230;Jones expertly balances the whimsical and the strange, building things to a climax of abandon, terror and restitution&#8230;Engrossing, enjoyable.&#8221; (Philip Womack, Telegraph)&#8220;Excellent characterization&#8230;a plot sprinkled with hints of secrets to be revealed&#8230;a page-turning read that blurs the edges of the country house mystery.&#8221; (Library Journal (starred review))&#8220;Jones&#8217; clever prose and bright tone heighten her characters and setting&#8230;she adroitly draws the layers of character that are exposed as shameful secrets come to light.&#8221; (Atlantic Monthly)&#8220;Enthralling&#8230;An English countryside setting, an ever-twisting plot, and gorgeously precise writing add up to one delightful novel.&#8221; (Martha Stewart Whole Living Magazine)&#8220;Exhilaratingly strange and darkly funny&#8230;veers off in a wildly surprising direction, and the way it plays out is delightful, sexy, moving-even profound&#8230;Will haunt you-but happily.&#8221; (USA Today)&#8220;Delightful and unexpected&#8230;These well-imagined characters serve to raise stakes the reader cares about. They move beyond archetypes, becoming something unexpectedly rich and engaging.&#8221; (Robin Vivimos, Denver Post)&#8220;&#8217;Downton Abbey&#8217; takes a turn for the supernatural in Sadie Jones&#8217;s stylishly eccentric comedy of manners THE UNINVITED GUESTS...Anglophiles who admire a biting sense of humor and a tinge of the Gothic, pull up a chair.&#8221; (Christian Science Monitor)&#8220;Ms. Jones&#8217;s comedy of manners, which takes place over a single evening in 1912, gleefully exposes the family members&#8217; snobbery&#8230; The author can&#8217;t resist harassing the Torringtons with the menace in the next room&#8230;&#8221; (New York Times)&#8220;&#8230;a delicious romp to read&#8230;Jones&#8217; novel is as tightly constructed as one of those elaborate corsets that the Crawley women squeeze into to sashay around the drawing rooms at Downton.&#8221; (Maureen Corrigan, NPR)&#8220;An enchanted new novel&#8230;[with] the sly, subversive dexterity of a Mozart opera or Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8216;A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream.&#8217;&#8221; (Washington Post)&#8220;The author&#8217;s command of period archness tips its hat to a pantheon of social satirists: Luis Bu&#xF1;uel in cahoots with Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen. Jones&#8217;s caustic takedown of 1-percenter exceptionalism arrives like a divine gift to occupying party poopers everywhere.&#8221; (New York Times Book Review)