Described as 'beautifully written and crafted' by Daily Mail, The Children's Home is a beguiling, disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who unexpectedly visit a disfigured recluse in his country home.In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira and David, appear. Morgan takes them in, giving them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then more children begin to show up.Dr. Crane, the town physician and Morgan's lone tether to the outside world, is as taken with the children as Morgan, and begins to spend more time in Morgan's library. But the children behave strangely. They show a prescient understanding of Morgan's past, and their bizarre discoveries in the mansion attics grow increasingly disturbing. Every day the children seem to disappear into the hidden rooms of the estate, and perhaps, into the hidden corners of Morgan's mind.The Children's Home is a genre-defying, utterly bewitching masterwork, an inversion of modern fairy tales like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass, in which children visit faraway lands to accomplish elusive tasks. Lambert writes from the perspective of the visited, weaving elements of psychological suspense, Jamesian stream of consciousness, and neo-gothic horror, to reveal the inescapable effects of abandonment, isolation, and the grotesque - as well as the glimmers of goodness - buried deep within the soul.Review: All the Children Are Home by Patry Francis I wanted this story to keep going and I love when I find books like that. I became so attached to these characters, to the Moscatellis and Agnes . History | Timeline - Children's Home of Poughkeepsie books, a magazine subscription, handkerchiefs, Christmas wreaths, and tickets to shows. Illness was a constant problem. Two children died during the Home's . The Tennessee Children's Home Society Lot at Elmwood One story, as told in Barbara Raymond's book The Baby Thief, has it that some of the bodies were disposed of through an agreement Miss Tann had . Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who . Children's Home Society. We're reading Before and After for our summer Family Locket Book Club selection on Goodreads. If you share a love . Book Review: The Children's Home - neverimitate - WordPress.com The Children's Home, by Charles Lambert, is an allegorical tale written by an accomplished weaver of words. The prose is sparse yet . Children Stolen From Parents and Sold in Before We Were Yours by . Sign up to receive Book Nation by Jen emails with reviews, author Q & A and reading recommendations. Enter your email on the home page. The . Review: The Children's Home by Charles Lambert This was one weirdly confusing book. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. It left me thinking for a bit, wondering exactly how I wanted .