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ISBN: 978-1-291-87356-6

Published: 2024

Print Length: 273 pages

Language: English

In 1975, Mary Park, the only daughter of a wealthy and aristocratic family,  whose accommodation is in Bloomsbury, London, is being driven beyond endurance by domestic and marital responsibilities, financial pressures and intellectual frustration. Separated from her philandering husband and concern over her teenage daughter taking illegal drugs also occupy her time as well as having to deal with the memory of cruel and hysterical female ancestors suffering from paranoia and delusions concerning something demoniac about the house. An insidious presence that has permeated everything and induced into it a sense of gloom and uneasiness for as long as she could remember. No, worse than uneasiness. More like agitation. As if something were watching her, impregnating only the sensitive and the vulnerable.

However, an unprincipled and desperate mathematician informs her that her grandfather once built a miraculous machine which offered the possibility of changing the world.

Mary will need to confront her family’s shadowy past and endure obscure and repugnant painful memories before she can unravel the mystery of what her mother’s fight with insanity used to call, Bleak House.