Who lives in a fictional house like this? Quiz
Books set in houses
Houses are very key parts of many stories. They are not just where characters live, but are often the key part of a story themselves. Novels with houses with secrets, histories, hidden items in the walls, ghostly apparitions and more have been the focal point of many a mystery for example…
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House one
This house is in Norfolk and Malorie and Rosemary live here but not at the same time. One woman lives here in the 1960s and the other, some thirty years earlier. Notebooks from this time are going to tell the story of the house and the vents which took place, which changed the course of history for ever…
House Two
The house in this novel is a real house! Known as one of Britain’s most secret homes, the mansion house played an important part in military intelligence during World War II. The author has done a magical job of weaving fact and fiction together and it highlights a key and fascinating part of history!
House Three
This house has a sad and mysterious history. It’s more of a Hall than a house and at the start of this novel, a doctor returns to the house where he used to play as a boy. Only to find that the house remembers him in ways he least expects….
House Four
Set in 1904, the tagline for this novel is:
‘Something’s not right here. In the house. With the family.’
Newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated house it becomes clear there’s something not quite right about it or the woman who lives there……
House Five
A tumbledown house in Cornwall. A woman moves here to recuperate but finds letters hidden here which reveals secrets and promises from the past. The story takes you to the battlefields of France and bring a manor house into the story as well. The author of this book often has houses in her novels and this is no exception. This time, it’s on the banks of the River Tamar..
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