The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.In August 1939, thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection, whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She is unprepared for the scale of protecting her charges from party guests, wild animals, the elements, the tyrannical Major Lockwood and Luftwaffe bombs. Most of all, she is unprepared for the beautiful and haunted Lucy Lockwood.
For Lucy, who has spent much of her life cloistered at Lockwood suffering from bad nerves, the arrival of the museum brings with it new freedoms. But it also resurfaces memories of her late mother, and nightmares in which Lucy roams Lockwood hunting for something she has lost.
When the animals appear to move of their own accord, and exhibits go missing, they begin to wonder what exactly it is that they might need protection from. And as the disasters mount up, it is not only Hetty's future employment that is in danger, but her own sanity too. There's something, or someone, in the house. Someone stalking her through its darkened corridors . . .
Jane Healey is the author of The Beantown Girls and The Saturday Evening Girls Club, which have been bestselling on Amazon and in the Washington Post. Jane Healey abandoned a profession in high tech while her girls were little to pursue her passion of writing historical fiction about little-known women in history. It began as a hobby and has evolved into much more. Jane lives with her husband, two daughters, and two cats in a house north of Boston. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, exercising, cooking, and going to the beach when she is not writing. Visit her website, https://janehealey.com, for additional information on the author, future events, and to organize a book club visit.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780358106401 |
| ISBN 10 | 0358106400 |
| Title | The Animals at Lockwood Manor |
| Author | Jane Healey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2020-03-10 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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