# Observatory Mansions

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- Book: [Observatory Mansions](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-carey/observatory-mansions) ([Observatory Mansions.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-carey/observatory-mansions.md))
- Authors: [Edward Carey](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-carey)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-15-2903-133-1
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2019-03-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Simply the best Gothic fantasy of the new century. This first novel by Edward Carey… is stunning in its use of a dark fantasy atmosphere even though, as in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books, nothing fantastical happens… [ The beauty of the prose, and the clear yet gothic quality of the narration gave me the chills. I must confess that the novel got under my skin and moved me deeply…In all ways that count, Observatory Mansions is a major work. I consider it the best fiction yet published in the 21st century.