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A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.
Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.
Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
- Sales Rank: #271337 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury USA
- Published on: 2013-06-11
- Released on: 2013-06-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.21" h x .87" w x 5.65" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. An epidemic outbreak of corporate sabotage and murderous children fuels this cerebral thriller from English writer Jensen (The Rapture). Hired to find an explanation for the chaos is Phipps & Wexman, the multinational legal firm that employs Hesketh Lock as a cross-culture specialist. In an unusual twist, Hesketh is an anthropologist whose Asperger syndrome allows him to study human behavior at a remove (and ends most of his romantic relationships almost before they begin). The saboteurs, it turns out, are all employees trying to bring down their own corporations: in Taiwan, one blows the whistle on an illegal-logging coverup; another, in Sweden, fouls a deal in coffee futures, costing his bank millions; and in Dubai, an employee of a multinational construction company alters figures and screws up his company's business across five continents. Each saboteur commits suicide under baffling circumstances, but it's not until Dubai, where Hesketh witnesses a man's surprisingly elegant suicide when a small, ragged child appears, that he begins to see connections. Hesketh gradually discovers that the children constitute a tribe of sorts, with a group consciousness and their own language. They also have a mysterious craving for salt, as do the saboteurs. All of this has global ramifications, ratcheting up the suspense as the narrative picks up speed. Complementing the larger investigation is Hesketh's relationship to his beloved stepson, who has attempted to kill his mother. Are the children genetic mutants ? Have they come from the future to wreak havoc? Jensen never says, and her denouement is eerie and foreboding, leaving unanswered as many questions as it addresses. Agent: Clare Alexander, Aitken Alexander Associates. (Jan.)
From Booklist
The author of The Rapture (2009) offers up another gripping apocalyptic thriller, this one told from the point of view of a British man with Asperger’s syndrome who works for a consulting firm. Hesketh Lock isn’t sure what to make of an unsettling pattern that’s emerging around the world: formerly loyal employees are taking their own lives after committing acts of corporate sabotage. As the cases pile up, Hesketh tries to find a link between them while also making note of an even more terrifying trend: children are turning on their families, often resulting in fatal attacks. This hits home for Hesketh, who is very attached to Freddy, the seven-year-old son of his ex-girlfriend Kaitlin. When Freddy starts to display behaviors similar to those of the children whose violent assaults are stirring up paranoia and hysteria around the world, Hesketh fears he might lose the boy for good. Jensen weaves an eerie, haunting narrative, told in Hesketh’s singular voice, building an unsettling tension as it moves toward a chilling finish. --Kristine Huntley
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Extraordinary ... A hugely inventive generic hybrid, part-crime thriller, part morality tale, that dances along the borders of SF -- Arifa Akbar Independent There is no question that The Uninvited makes for a gripping read ... she is a great British author with a talent for brilliantly written and truly original tales Daily Express Expertly paced, combining moments of chilling horror with deadpan comedy, this audacious novel is utterly gripping -- Stephanie Cross Daily Mail In the course of eight inventive, provocative novels, Jensen has carved out a fictional space dense with elements of fantasy and thriller, satire and SF, science and cod-science, but entirely her own. The mainstream is moving towards her, rather than the other way around ... The book is so tightly wrought that even the recurrent phrase "not yet", which Hesketh teaches Freddy to append whenever anyone says "I don't know" as an earnest of the forward march of knowledge, comes to have a dark second meaning ... chilling -- Justine Jordan Guardian Psychologically rich and consistently thought-provoking ... always absorbing -- John Dugdale The Sunday Times A masterclass in creepiness - as unsettling as Margaret Atwood or Kazuo Ishiguro but with modern detail such as Skype calls, industrial espionage and Twitter. It is this hybrid of haunted souls and capitalist cautionary tale that gives the novel its power -- Alexandra Heminsly Independent Like Jensen's previous novel, The Rapture, this is as dazzling as it is unsettling Voyager We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Children of Men in this literary thriller from the author of The Rapture. As the unsettling story unfolds, delayed flights will be no problem with this in your bag Elle, Summer Reads Recalling Margaret Atwood's haunting The Handmaid's Tale ... A compelling, poetic and subtle psychological thriller -- Rebecca Wallersteiner The Lady This brilliantly odd thriller mixes the quirky charm of The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Nighttime with the sci-fi strangeness of Doctor Who ... You'll be kept guessing until the final pages Easy Living I've never read anything like this. Chilling, and thought-provoking, this book offers a vision of a future where things go badly wrong. This is a psychological thriller written by an author with precision timing and a innate talent for the genre. There is an unsettling mix here, of compassion and humanity, along with ideas that are difficult to comprehend - children killing adults. Compelling to read, difficult to put down, Liz Jensen's new novel is both terrifying and redemptive Monique Roffey, author of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
No Seconds? All Myself? Why, This Would Make a Man a Man of Salt, to Use His Eyes for Garden Water-Pots.
By Robert Beveridge
Liz Jensen, The Uninvited (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free of charge by Amazon Vine.
I had a very difficult time with the first few chapters of this book. Hesketh Lock's head is a very difficult place to be, especially if you think like him. Something to be wary of, though once you've got the rhythm of Hesketh's narration down, that becomes less of a problem in Jensen's absorbing, intricately-plotted, baffling mystery-sci-fi-horror tale...
at least, in the first three-quarters or so of it. Liz Jensen hands us Lock, our narrator, an insurance investigator-cum-spin doctor with Asperger Syndrome; a man for whom logic is everything and clarity is supreme. At least, he wants to think so; as the book opens, on the other hand, we find Hesketh on the island of Arran, off the coast of Scotland, working on a very complex piece of origami while trying to sort out his feelings about the recent breakup of a three-year relationship and his continuing affection for the ex's son Freddy, a child from a previous relationship with whom Hesketh has a strong bond. All of this is setup, really, and the slow pace of that doesn't help much; things get better when we meet Ashok, Hesketh's manic boss, who sends Hesketh winging off to investigate a bit of what seems to be industrial sabotage in southeast Asia. The case is quickly resolved, and Hesketh actually comes to respect the saboteur. But soon after, Hesketh learns in quick succession that (a) the man committed suicide, (b) this may not have been an isolated incident (he is immediately sent to Sweden on another case, which has disturbing similarities), and (c) these cases may be related to a series of violent attacks by children on their family members that is also plaguing the planet. Hesketh, Ashok, and other investigators at their company race to find the answers before society spirals completely out of control, even bringing Hesketh's mentor, Professor Whybray, out of retirement to assist--but all of them have their own personal baggage to deal with, and some of that starts getting in the way...
I spent the first half of this book amazed at what Liz Jensen was creating. I had no idea where she was going with it all, and was fascinated with the possibilities. Then she dropped the first hint, and I found myself thinking, "please, don't turn this into a crappy predictable piece of [x] fiction." It's to Jensen's credit that she kept me thinking that until pretty darn close to the final chapter of the book; it felt like she was headed that way, but she never really stepped foot over the line until she absolutely had to. Which does not change the fact that the book picks the easiest, most predictable, most tiring way of resolving all of those previously-interesting bits and tying them all together. Again to Jensen's credit, she doesn't tie everything up neatly, as well she shouldn't; I can't go into detail without being spoilery, but the simple fact is that, from Hesketh's perspective, there is no way for him to have gained all of the answers by book's end, and that's something too many authors would have failed to realize. In fact, and since I keep using the phrase "to Jensen's credit" this should be obvious, the book is impeccably-written, most of it is very well-plotted, the main characters are solid, and even when some of the others aren't, it's very tempting to paint this as the way Hesketh sees them rather than any defect in Jensen creating them (Kaitlin, his ex, for example; Hesketh describes in a place or two how he's basically written her off, and so seeing her as two-dimensional makes sense). All well and good...but I can't get past that overly-facile, annoying resolution. It goes along so well, and then falls off a cliff. And yet, I can't bring myself to ding the book for that as hard as I desperately want to because it teetered on that edge for so long without actually falling off. There is a lot to be said for this book. Prepare, however, for great disappointment. ** ½
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Intriguing Plot, Epic Moments, Might Not Suit Everyone
By Pepper
I have to say I'm not surprised by the mixed response to this book displayed in the other reviews. This book is brilliant in my opinion, but I can see how it might not be to everyone's fancy.
Hesketh has Asperger's Syndrome, and putting us in his head for the duration of the story certainly makes for a unique read. Hesketh has a detached view to events, but at the same time you can see an inner struggle happening. If you're looking for a heart-thumping action thriller, this isn't the book for you. The story is very much about Hesketh and his inner journey, something facilitated by the world literally doing itself over. Of course, the horror aspects of this book definitely keep the heart rate up, but the way the narrative flows is a bit different to books that might have a "socially normal" point of view character.
The best advice I can give is to read the sample. If you loved the sample, you'll love the rest of the book.
As a side note, there were moments in this book that I can only describe as epic. Not Lord-of-the-Rings-Star-Wars-Dune epic, but more like holy-snapping-duck-sh**-that-one-sentence-just-freaking-blew-my-brain.
The only reason for not rating five stars is that I felt the ending could have been stronger. Compared to the rest of the book, I feel the author breezed over it a little.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Demonstrates the deep humanity often hidden within Asperger's
By B. Case
Hesketh, the main character in Liz Jensen's newest novel, "The Uninvited," is someone I don't think I shall ever forget. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to get to know him through this book, and I can't shake the feeling that he's not just a literary character, but someone very real.
Hesketh has Asperger's. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology, an affinity for learning and speaking foreign languages, a life-long love for linguistics, and a passion for origami. Everyday life frequently over-stimulates him and he resolves these situations by folding origami figures compulsively in his mind. For pleasure, he reads about the latest advances in particle physics. Hesketh is the ultimate reliable narrator; it is impossible for him to tell a lie. His ex-wife calls him a meat robot, but readers will learn that he has a deep reservoir of humanity that makes him a better human being than most of the best without Asperger's. He has some odd social behavior that is not uncommon to those on the autism spectrum...behavior that at times can be extremely humorous. Hesketh is a gem of a human just waiting for the reader to discover.
If a fine author with very strong writing skills manages to deliver an extraordinary character study, then that would generally be enough to satisfy most literary readers. But what makes this book extraordinary is that this brilliant character study is enveloped in first-rate dystopian sci-fi thriller. I love dystopian fiction, but rarely get a chance to read it because it is hard for me to find authors that will hold my interest. This book grabbed me at the beginning, and didn't let go until I'd quickly made my way to the end. For me, it was a high-octane literary and thinking-person's thriller.
The main character is employed as a Behavioral Patterns Expert for an international corporation with a sudden growing worldwide client-base seeking help resolving devastating and singularly unexplainable cases of insider sabotage. Hesketh is the analyst sent to figure out what is going on...to examine the chaos of seemingly unrelated facts surrounding each case and somehow find the underlying patterns that connect the dots, in short, to find out why. Simultaneously, worldwide media attention is focused on a slow but growing phenomenon of preadolescent children violently attacking and killing their parents and other adult family members. Hesketh eventually sees a link between the two types of incidents: corporate sabotage and child murderers. It is a problem so big it threatens the collapse of the whole of global civilization. It is a force that can't be stopped. Hesketh's job eventually morphs into a singular focus: nurturing and saving his ex-stepchild, Freddy K. Through Hesketh's love and care for Freddy K., we begin to understand the depths of humanity that often remain hidden behind the outward social awkwardness of Asperger's.
"The Uninvited" is a gem of a novel. Reading it makes me want to turn around and read all the author's previous works...and I will.
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