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Book Synopsis*The inspiration behind Netflix''s The Haunting of Bly Manor*
Discover Henry James''s most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more and more convinced that something evil is watching her.
''A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale'' Oscar Wilde
Trade ReviewA most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale -- Oscar Wilde
It really does turn your blood cold -- Colm Tóibín
Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful -- David Lodge
Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry -- Graham Greene
[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation -- T. S. Eliot
