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The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The House at the Edge of the World about?
Part mystery, part psychological drama, Julia Rochester's The House At The Edge Of The World is a darkly comic, unorthodox and thrilling debut"Wonderfully crisp and funny and it's so full of vivid, surprising images that the reader almost doesn't notice the moment that deep secrets begin to be revealed." - Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth Is Missing When I was eighteen, my father fell off a cliff. It was a stupid way to die. John Venton's drunken fall from a Devon cliff leaves his family with an embarrassing ghost. His twin children, Morwenna and Corwin, flee in separate directions to take up their adult lives. Their mother, enraged by years of an unhappy marriage, embraces merry widowhood. Only their grandfather finds solace in the crumbling family house, endlessly painting their story onto a large canvas map. His brightly coloured map, with its tiny pictures of shipwrecks, forgotten houses, saints and devils, is a work of his imagination, a collection of local myths and histories. But it holds a secret. As the twins are drawn grudgingly back to the house, they discover that their father's absence is part of the map's mysterious pull."A slippery tale of perception and manipulati
Who reads The House at the Edge of the World?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Julia Rochester
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group UK
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241181980
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (402 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13