The Honours.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clare, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--Fiction.

Teenagers.

Secrecy--Fiction.

Secrecy.

Nineteen thirties--Fiction.

Nineteen thirties.

England--Fiction.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2020.

Newburyport : Canongate Books, 2015.

Summary:

The award-winning poet and author of The Ice House offers “a gorgeously entertaining fantasy novel set in Norfolk between the wars” ( The Guardian ). Norfolk, 1935 . World War II is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen’s newest resident, thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall’s elite and cultish Society for Perpetual Improvement, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father. As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine unearths a world that is darker and more threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr. Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods. “Astutely brilliant. It is rare to find such a riveting, fantastical, adventure matched by such poetic flair. A rich, gripping delight.” —Matt Haig “Gorgeously gripping . . . the comparisons that most readily spring to mind are the wildly eccentric and benevolent imaginations of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.” — The Guardian

Contents:

Intro

September 12th 1935

Act One

Nine Months Earlier

Chapter 1 The Fire Sermon

Chapter 2 O Queen of Air and Darkness

Chapter 3 Metamorphosis

Chapter 4 Ordeal By Fire

Chapter 5 I Cannot Bear A Gun

Chapter 6 Unhappy and Forsaken Toad

Chapter 7 The Curse of the Stokehams

Chapter 8 Underworld

Chapter 9 The Inscrutable Mr Kung

Chapter 10 Better Drowned Than Duffers

Interlude 1

Act Two

Chapter 11 In Balance with this life

Chapter 12 The Brat of Heaven

Chapter 13 Big Game

Chapter 14 The Batman

Chapter 15 Love Lies Bleeding

Chapter 16 Good Authors Too Who Once Knew Better Words

Chapter 17 Fall

Chapter 18 Trial of the Profligate

Chapter 19 The Sleep of Reason

Chapter 20 The Folorn Hope

Chapter 21 Beastly Things

Chapter 22 The Old Lie

Chapter 23 The Little Gentlemen

Chapter 24 So Much for Operations in Salt-Marshes

Interlude 2

Act Three

Chapter 25 Parabellum

Chapter 26 Forgive Me, Comrade

Chapter 27 The Running of the Bulls

Chapter 28 Patience

Chapter 29 Voyage Au Centre De la Terre

Chapter 30 Bal Masqué

Chapter 31 A Little More Than Kin

Chapter 32 The Isle is Full of Noises

Chapter 33 Good Servant, Bad Master

Chapter 34 Mr Garforth Sees it Through

Chapter 35 A Farewell To Arms

Chapter 36 Mere Oblivion

Chapter 37 She who Fights Monsters

Chapter 38 Say, Father, Say

Chapter 39 Arise

Chapter 40 You Will Die, Brother, If you go to it long Enough

Chapter 41 What She Strives to Shun

Chapter 42 The First Blast of the Trumpet

Chapter 43 Our Poison'd Chalice

Chapter 44 While Men Sleep

Chapter 45 Don't Look Back

Interlude 3

Epilogue

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781782114772

1782114777

OCLC:

903691822