A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jeff VanderMeer
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A MARMOT AND A MYSTERIOUS
WOMAN
The strange things started happening as soon as Jonathan Lambshead
walked onto his grandfather’s estate and only got worse. Although, in a
sense, you could say that strange things had been happening to Jonathan his
entire life.
First it was bad cell phone service as he got off the bus, which shook to
a stop where the country road turned onto the rutted drive that, a half mile
beyond, ended at the mansion.
Then no reception, although he supposed he could call the mysterious
figure lurking in the bushes some hundred feet ahead a kind of “reception.”
That this figure then darted into the underbrush suggested it wasn’t the
gardener. Something about the nongardener was familiar, but Jonathan
couldn’t put a finger on it. The moment passed and Jonathan decided
against pursuit. Usually an unexpected detour would have delighted him,
but he was too eager to get to his destination and the wonders promised by
the estate agent, Stimply.
So he filed the encounter away under the category of “shy herb
specialist.” Dr. Lambshead’s estate was large, and the man had had any
number of helpers as his health began to fail. Knowing his grandfather,
upward of half of these helpers were helplessly eccentric—people his
grandfather had met on journeys drawn into his orbit.
It had taken all day to travel to the mansion, coming from Poxforth
Academy near Robin Hood’s Bay on the coast of Yorkshire. Three bus
transfers, each one more ancient and creaky, the last with wooden
floorboards and faded insignia that seemed to date back to World War I.
Now he was as deep into woods and rolling hills as you could get in
England. The summer light was fading to amber, slowly withdrawing,
drying up the lovely patches of gold projected onto the road through the tree
cover.
He was a tired sixteen-year-old lugging a heavy backpack. Yet the
tiredness had nothing to do with a physical weight. It came more from a
dissatisfaction with his studies at Poxforth Academy. He missed his life in
Florida before Poxforth. He missed the summer tanagers and winter
warblers, and so many other things.
Perverse in a sense—he’d grown up in a tumbledown cottage in the
wild and desolate countryside near Robin Hood’s Bay until age seven, and
then been brought kicking and screaming to Florida by his mother, Sarah.
But Jonathan had grown to love the subtropical wilderness there, and the
Panhandle coast, so different from northeast England. He’d made a life in
America with Sarah, and had forgotten England for the most part. Until
Poxforth.
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