The house at midnight

By Lucie Whitehouse

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Manors, England, fiction, Country life, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)

Description: After the suicide of his uncle, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor in Oxfordshire. After his friends visit, Lucas becomes obsessed with home movies made at Stoneborough thirty years earlier. Caught on film is a young group that seems disturbingly similar to their own. Though the friends struggle to pull free from the house's dark influence, desire and betrayal prevade their hot, decadent summer at the claustrophobic Stoneborough.