Morgan lives with a housekeeper named Engel, and shortly after she arrives, the outside world begins to penetrate through the gated estate when children inexplicably begin to appear.
Although each chapter begins with a childlike tagline, this is not a children’s book. Very little information is given at first about Morgan, his life, his family’s fortune or why he has chosen to isolate himself, but gradually over the course of the novel, some of the mystery is peeled away. The novel concerns a hideously disfigured recluse, Morgan, who lives in a rambling, elaborate walled country estate, in a house designed by his grandfather. This genre-defying book is being compared to the work of Neil Gaiman, and although I’m not that familiar with Gaiman’s work to make a comparison, I think it’s best to judge the novel on its own merit. Following the trajectory of a nightmare, the book starts with the feeling of a fairy tale, morphs into fable and then the mirror cracks to reveal a dystopian horror. The Children’s Homewas my first book for 2016, and it’s a complete change of pace for this author. In 2011 I read Little Monsters, The Slave Housein 2013, and A View from the Towerin 2014. I was introduced to the work of Charles Lambert in 2010 through the novel, Any Human Face.
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