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Even now I could remember the first time I saw the house as clearly as if there were a video than it playing in my own head.
—From The House at Midnight
It was the house that altered everything. Following the suicide of his uncle, a successful art supplier, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor, a stately property in Oxfordshire. He imagines it as a place where he and his tight-knit band of friends from Oxford can hang out away from London.
Soon after their first reunion at the manor on New Season’s Eve, Lucas shows his feelings for Joanna, a female he has long pined for, and the new pairing pleases everyone. But Joanna senses that the house is having a unusual influence on Lucas. He's haunted by the fatality of his uncle and seems enthusiastic about home videos his uncle’s friends made at Stoneborough 30 years previously. The old gang of friends in those films is disturbingly like the new set, disclosing a aspect of Lucas’s family that he has never seen before.
Over the hot, decadent summer within the claustrophobic confines of the home, past secrets emerge and erotic tensions escalate, shattering the group’s friendship and changing their lives permanently. The House at Midnight is a compelling union of The Big Chill with The Key History, trim through with Gray’s Anatomy. An eerie account of compulsion, desire and betrayal, it heralds the arrival of a significant new expertise on the literary scene.
