Roddy and Pamela haven’t been at Cliff End long before various disturbances do occur. Stella, then three years old, went to live with her grandfather. There is some uncertainty as to how Mary came to fall. Mary died falling over the cliff edge and Carmel died of pneumonia soon afterwards. The Commander’s daughter, Mary, and her artist husband, Llewellyn Meredith, had lived there with their daughter, Stella, as had Carmel, the artist’s model and onetime mistress. As Roddy and Pamela do the house up they learn more about its unhappy history. They come upon Cliff End by chance, fall in love with it and buy it from the owner, Commander Brooke, in spite of his warning Roddy that the last tenants left abruptly some years previously after experiencing certain ‘disturbances’.
In 1944 it was made into a film titled The Uninvited and starring Ray Milland.Īt the beginning of the novel Roddy Fitzgerald and his sister, Pamela, tired of London life, are driving through Devon looking for a house to buy. This novel was initially published as Uneasy Freehold.
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