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|title=Sugar Hall

|author=Tiffany Murray

|publisher=Seren

|date=May 2014

|summary=While it might at times have benefitted from a bit more focus, this is still an intelligent and slightly spooky novel.

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Sugar Hall is a place of transitions. It has recently gained new residents – Lilia Sugar, and her children Saskia and Dieter. It has lost several portions of the estate, however – several valuable trinkets, the billiard table – as Lilia has to sell things to keep the family from poverty. But apart from things arriving and things going, there are things moving – possibly the objects left, possibly the butterfly patterns on the wallpapers. And there are things appearing – such as a lot of actual, living insects, and the naked boy who sometimes appears only as a disembodied head to the young exploring Dieter…

I must thank the publishers for my review copy.

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