The Sacred Combe: Thomas Maloney

Wanted:
Diligent volunteer to carry out two months`
painstaking archival work for private library.
Board and lodging provided;
curiosity and imagination rewarded.

When Samuel Browne`s wife unexpectedly leaves him, his world crumbles - until he spies this job advert hidden between the pages of a second-hand book. It leads him deep into the English countryside, to a new job in a cold and ancient house.

Sam must find a lost letter, hidden in a library of eighteen thousand books. As he sets to work under the watchful eyes of the house`s eccentric inhabitants, he soon realises that this is not the only mystery that this strange, seductive place holds …