Serenity House

Christopher Hope

From Shelf: The Booker Prize 1992 Shortlist

Shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, Serenity House is 'superb... Hope employs a blend of devastating satire and gruesome humour to counterpoint the banal with the fantastic, and does so to dazzling effect.' Independent

Max Montfalcon lay in bed and tried to remember how many people he had killed...Old Max, the genial giant of Serenity House, north London's 'Premier Eventide Refuge', might have been left to die in peace. But his son-in-law Albert, an MP with a special interest in the War Crimes Bill, has other ideas. Then Jack arrives. An all-American boy who survives on a diet of video nasties and Chinese takeaways. Max is haunted by dreams of the Holocaust. And the occupants of Serenity House are haunted by Jack...

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