The Uninvited Guests: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “The Uninvited Guests is at once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class. It is so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment. It is a brilliant novel.”

  — Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder

• “What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragicomedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests is a very clever novel.”

  — Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of Elegy for Eddie

• “What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen, here is love and error in a ramshackle manor house complete with railway survivors, a birthday party, and a pony. I was completely captivated by its madcap nature and then utterly unprepared for the strange fruit that the story bore. Passing like a spring fever, here is a fairy tale that stays with you long after it is gone. I couldn’t put it down.”

  — Sarah Blake, New York Times bestselling author The Postmistress

• “A delicious tea sandwich of genres set in post-Edwardian England…The author’s command of period archness tips its hat to a pantheon of social satirists: Luis Buñuel in cahoots with Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen. Jones’ caustic takedown of 1-percenter exceptionalism arrives like a divine gift to occupying party poopers everywhere.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Downton Abbey meets The Twilight Zone in Sadie Jones’ exhilaratingly strange and darkly funny drawing-room dramedy…The dinner party veers off in a wildly surprising direction, and the way it plays out is delightful, sexy, moving—even profound. The Uninvited Guests will haunt you—but happily.”

  — USA Today

• “Vividly atmospheric…Niftily deceptive…A story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character, and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion…A sublimely clever book.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “[A] remarkable dark comedy…Jones’ characters are delightfully eccentric, the wit delightfully droll, and the prose simply delightful. But for all its charm, this is a serious book.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Excellent characterization combines with a plot sprinkled with hints of secrets to be revealed produce a page-turning read that blurs the edges of the country house mystery.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)