{"product_id":"the-servants-9780061494161","title":"The Servants","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the skateboard, while other boys his age are in school. He hates the unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy. Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary, no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy . . . and the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change \u003cem\u003eeverything\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story, \u003cem\u003eThe Servant\u003c\/em\u003es marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall Smith--the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eSpares\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Marshall Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Voyager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.40w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061494161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2008 pg. 72 - Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009 pg. 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Michael Marshall:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Marshall Smith attended Cambridge University, where he spent the majority of his time writing and performing comedy with the Cambridge Footlights, which led to two series for the BBC. He's the author of the trilogy comprised of \u003cem\u003eThe Straw Men\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Upright Man\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlood of Angels\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Voyager","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40210676809843,"sku":"9.78006E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4c4dfa10-311c-408d-b63b-8f5106ddc4e9.jpg?v=1656421405","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-servants-9780061494161","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}