Dorian is happy enough to be errand-boy for Jann's peculiar correspondence. Irene herself has met the maid's brother, which the village network has immediately inflated into a long-term romance. It's a way to relieve the poverty her deceased father left them in, as Simone is now housekeeper to Lazarus Jann, a mysterious elderly businessman who lives in a mansion peopled by countless automata, and the isolated shell of what used to be his healthy wife. Good and bad luck combined have forced Irene and her family – mother Simone and insular younger brother Dorian – to live in the Normandy village of Blue Bay. Summary: The third of Zafon's teen adventures, and a third classically-minded drama of hidden truths and mysterious arcana.
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