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The Servants - by  Michael Marshall Smith (Paperback) - 1 of 1

The Servants - by Michael Marshall Smith (Paperback)

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  • Author(s): Michael Marshall Smith
  • 224 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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After 11-year-old Mark moves with his ill mother and hated stepfather to the English resort town Brighton, he discovers that their new house holds a secret: in the long unused servants' quarters, the past is alive, and the servants are still at work. To restore harmony to his home, Mark has to venture into the servants' quarters and fix what has broken.



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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.



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"Superb...Smith portrays a child's irrational anger with devastating accuracy, and Mark's visits to the surreal and intensely symbolic world of the servants are powerfully depicted." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This moving parable delivers strong psychological insights into a child's powerlessness and rage." - Entertainment Weekly

"A hefty lot for any author to manage, but Smith does it both subtly and charmingly." - Santa Fe New Mexican on THE SERVANTS


Manufacturer Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Language: English
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Author: Michael Marshall Smith
Street Date: September 9, 2008
TCIN: 1011761041
UPC: 9780061494161
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-8942
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.36 pounds
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