The Grotesque (Vintage Contemporaries) | 
pickHenry Coal, amateur paleontologist & unrepentant misanthrope, narrates the events that led to his paralysis & the mistaken diagnosis by his doctors of him being in a vegetative state. Harriet, Henry's wife, hires Fledge & Doris as the new butler & cook at Crook Manor. Henry develops an irrational dislike for Fledge & events escalate when his daughter's soon-to-be fiancé disappears. Despite Coal being a firm believer in science, narrative👇
vivastory ambiguities abound in McGrath's sinister novel. I agree whole-heartedly with the Sunday Times blurb, “... the deranged relish of a Poe but also the acrid irony of Waugh.“ 3y
