Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Animals at Lockwood Manor written by Jane Healey which was published in. Part love story, part mystery, The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey is a gripping and atmospheric tale of family madness, long-buried secrets and hidden desires. Brief Summary of Book: The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey.

But why is Lucy so traumatized? Does she know something she’s not telling? And is there any truth to local rumours of ghosts and curses? Hetty Cartwright is tasked with moving animal specimens from the Natural History Museum collection to a manor in the countryside to protect them from the German air raids. It takes place in England during the second world war. Protecting her charges from the irascible Lord Lockwood and resentful servants is work enough, but when some of the animals go missing, and worse, Hetty begins to suspect someone – or something – is stalking her through the darkened corridors of the house.Īs the disasters mount, Hetty finds herself falling under the spell of Lucy, Lord Lockwood’s beautiful but clearly haunted daughter. The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a debut historical fiction novel. There was much cover gazing and stroking going on before I even got to the prose. The Animals at Lockwood Manor > A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK - WITH SPRAYED & ARTWORKED PAGE EDGES <<<< Jane Healey. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the duration of the war, Hetty soon realizes that she’s taken on more than she’d bargained for. And they don’t come more beautiful, or indeed unique than The Animals of Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey, published earlier this year by Mantle Books. Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum’s collection of mammals. Honestly, a story this simple should not take the wrong side of three hundred pages to tell. The plot is slow off the mark, meanders like a petulant public schoolboy, and never achieves anything. * Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020* The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a lackluster wannabe.

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