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  • Published: 1 September 1989
  • ISBN: 9780553272611
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $17.99

The Unloved




An arresting, mysterious, hypnotising novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy

Lush, a deceptively tranquil, the secluded island  basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina  coast--as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-great  plantation house now crumbling amidst the ancient  oaks. Now, for the first time in two decades,  Kevin Devereaux has returned here with his wife and  children to visit Kevin's hated, and frightening  mother. She said she was ill--but is that really why  the old woman has summoned the son she has not  seen in so many years? Suddenly, horribly, one of  the Devereauxs is going to die. And now, all the  dark secrets of this once-proud family will emerge  to wrap their evil around the unsuspecting  children. Until, in the shadowed corridors and  dust-covered rooms of the decaying old house, they learn the  true terror of The Unloved.

  • Published: 1 September 1989
  • ISBN: 9780553272611
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

John Saul

John Saul's first novel Suffer the Little Children was an immediate million-copy bestseller. He has since written such bestsellers as Guardian, All Fall Down, Nathaniel, Brainchild, Hellfire, The Unwanted, The Unloved, Creature, Sleepwalk, Second Child, Darkness, Shadows, The Homing, Black Lightning and The Presence, each a spine-tingling tale of supernatural, technological, or psychological terror. John Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Maui, Hawaii. He is currently working on his next novel.

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