Usually ships in 2-4 weeks This item is Non-Returnable. But Mimi has just arrived, so who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want? Part gripping thriller, part family drama, this fast-paced novel plays out in alternating viewpoints, in a pastoral setting that is evocative and eerie - a mysterious character in its own right. The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones localshipping For Delivery On Order. Two people looking for peace and solitude find each other at a house on the snye (look it up, I had too), but there is something else, someone else about. It is well written with full characters and rich dialogue. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she's shocked to find someone already living there - Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens inside: a dead bird, a snakeskin, a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones is a most excellent read. He has also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award twice, the Arthur Ellis Award of the Crime Writers of Canada, twice, and, once upon a time, the Edgar Award presented by the Mystery Writers of America. He has won The Governor General’s Award twice and been short-listed six times. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she's glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. Tim Wynne-Jones has written 37 books for people of all ages. Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. Who is the uninvited? This twisty page-turner from a master of suspense plumbs the unsettling goings-on at a picture-perfect woodland cottage.
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