1990 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
This is a disturbing gothic tale set in a manor house in Berkshire in 1949, in which Sir Hugo Coal, amateur palaeontologist, curmudgeon and sexual fantasist, recounts the fall of the House of Crook.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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