Even now I can remember the first time I saw the house as clearly as if there were a video of it playing in my head.
—From The House at MidnightIt was the house that changed everything.
After the suicide of his uncle, a successful art dealer, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor, a stately property in Oxfordshire.
He imagines it as a place where he and his tight-knit group of friends from Oxford can spend time away from London.
Soon after their first reunion at the manor on New Year.