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Unworkers Kindle Edition

by Lynette Sofras (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.9 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
Chichester Court should be a safe place, a refuge for lone mothers and their children. But for five women and their offspring it becomes a house of terror. Strange and disturbing dreams; voices urging unspeakable acts and bizarre and alarming events affect them all.

The strange happenings at the Georgian mansion are not confined solely to the women. The children are also at the mercy of the forces in the house - watched over by a woman in grey who is not one of the residents.

There is an atmosphere of old evil in Chichester Court and it is not a safe place to be. Not safe at all.
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    November 14, 2013
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DJ6WLCW
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 14, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.2 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 365 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Lynette Sofras

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A former teacher, Lynette gave up her career in education a few years ago in order to focus on her writing and thus fulfil her childhood dream. She writes contemporary women's fiction, often involving romance with suspense or a supernatural twist. She claims 'Killing Jenna Crane', a romantic thriller and 'Unworkers' a modern ghost story/women's fiction are her personal favourites to date. A more recent release,'The Nightclub' is a romance packed with suspense, while her latest story 'Cocktails and Lies' marks a slight departure from contemporary romance into the realms of cozy mystery. You can find more details of all her novels on her website: http://www.lynettesofras.com. In the meantime, why not download her first, award-winning contemporary romance 'The Apple Tree' free from Amazon.

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Customers find the book's stories realistic and engaging. The writing style receives positive feedback, with customers describing it as very visual.

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Customers appreciate the realism of the book's stories, with one noting how they are woven around women characters.

"...While the ending is satisfying, it's also believable. I know these women's lives will go on...." Read more

"...I really like this book and I like the her style. Her tales are woven around women and most importantly all the main characters are mid aged women..." Read more

"...It’s a cross between supernatural and realism. It’s a story for women mostly, but you can’t help getting involved in the lives of these characters..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, describing it as visual and detailed, with one customer noting how it helps readers understand situations well.

"...I love this book. It's dense, detailed, visual, very real – and thus very disturbing...." Read more

"...The tale is well described and it helps the reader to understand each and every situation well...." Read more

"...Wow! This one is quite different, more thoughtful and with strong paranormal elements...." Read more

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  • M. Thornburg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dense, disturbing, and very real
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018
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    Gemma, Anne, and Paige have four things in common. They're single mothers – Gemma and Anne, in their early 30s, are recently divorced from their children's fathers; Paige, just 17, doesn't know who her baby's father is. They're unemployed and in financial difficulties. All three live in Chichester Court, a huge 19th-century house in London that's been renovated into low-rent individual apartments. And all three are haunted – by their own pasts, and also by strange voices, dreams, apparitions and odors, ambiguous manifestations that seem at times to cross into the physical world. The most frightening aspect of these manifestations is that their main focus seems not to be on the women themselves, but on their young children.

    I love this book. It's dense, detailed, visual, very real – and thus very disturbing. One of the great things about it, to my mind, is that Lynette Sofras doesn't explain everything away at the end with a sweeping justification for it all. While the ending is satisfying, it's also believable. I know these women's lives will go on. They'll continue to learn, hopefully, but they haven't learned everything yet. And they'll always wonder about the strange things that brought them together and cemented their friendship, for a little while, in this strange old house.
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  • Mia Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Tale-Enjoyed Well!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2016
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    I have read "In loving Hate" by Lynette Sofras previously and this is my second book of the author. I really like this book and I like the her style. Her tales are woven around women and most importantly all the main characters are mid aged women in the modern era. Her stories make it sense realistic and make me enjoy the tale very much.

    Going in to the story, Chichester Court is the residence of Gemma, Annne, Paige, Lucy, Rhia and Johanna. They live with their kids and a series of mystified events evoke curiosity, mystery and fear in their minds. The tale is well described and it helps the reader to understand each and every situation well. I really like how this story rolls back and forth describing the life of each and every character and it grabbed my mind deeply. Precisely it took only two sittings for me to complete this book and I must say that this book made me enjoy my leisure time. Recommended read for all!
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  • Forrest Garcia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
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    I was impressed by the first book I read from this writer and wanted to read more of what she wrote. Wow! This one is quite different, more thoughtful and with strong paranormal elements. These five women with a load of baggage of their own get drawn together in this eerie house where one of them goes to live and all hell (almost literally) breaks loose. It’s a cross between supernatural and realism. It’s a story for women mostly, but you can’t help getting involved in the lives of these characters and their families. Clever writing and very visual. Five stars. Recommended.
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  • N.T.
    5.0 out of 5 stars I love Ghost Stories
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2019
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    This was a rollercoaster read. I loved it every step of the way.
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  • Good Book Alert
    5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting spooky tale
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013
    Format: Kindle
    First off, before you begin this book, get a paper and pen, so you can make a list to keep the following characters straight. All are single mothers at the creepy Chichester Court, a home for unwed mothers who got that status in varying ways. Over the course of the book, the characters are fleshed out very well, but at first they were hard to keep straight:

    Gemma, with 6yr old daughter Amy and 3 yr. old son Sam
    Anne and her son Oliver
    Paige and her baby Courtney (whose birth names are Pam and Cathy)
    Lucy and her son Liam
    There are also the unhappily married Rhia, and Johanna, a divorced woman who appears happy, as major characters.

    Warning for those that believe marriage is sacrosanct: lovers abound in this story. Though most of these women are on what we call welfare in the US, and have small children, they still manage to attract men, most of whom seem keen on exacerbating the problem which landed the women in this creepy house to begin with, i.e., being single mothers.

    All of these women above see or experience the ghostly manifestations of Chichester Court in some way (temporary possession--or at least very persuasive, dangerous impulses--for the women, violence/injury for the children). But I have to say, this is far more a drama on the wreckage of divorce and adultery than a horror story about what evil lurks in a house, or in men's hearts. That is not to say I didn't enjoy this book...it was very well written, and I really cared what happened to the characters, most of whom I could have been happy to call friends. My point is that this would have made a good drama story all on its own without the background of the spooky house and ghostly hauntings. I really enjoyed the drama and the story and the excellent dialogue, which made me cheer and laugh in spots.

    I particularly liked this paragraph, which demonstrates the skill of the author in creating memorable, unusual characters that you can't help empathizing with, even when they make terrible mistakes: "Rhia felt swamped by the feeling she'd been only vaguely realising for several months but which had more recently begun to engulf her almost every time she went out of her house; her lovely house, her dream home which all her friends envied; her home with her clever, perfect children and her devoted, ideal husband. Yet for all the stability and equilibrium her life offered her now, it felt empty and stagnant compared with the lives of her friends. And not just her friends. Wherever she went, she felt compelled to look into other people's houses and believe the lives being lived out behind other windows and walls were more vibrant, more substantial than her own. And that made her feel dissatisfied, hollow...cheated....She felt like the Little Match Girl, the ragged child who gazed enviously through walls to feed off the light and lives of others."

    I admit the title of this book didn't do it for me...but that is because I failed to get the reference, alluded to below direct from the book: 'The Unworkers', that's what I call us. Unpaid, unvalued, unnoticed... we're like those little elfin tailors, beavering away invisibly, putting the world to rights with our neat little patches while we put our own lives on hold for everyone else." The unworkers in the book are women whose love relationships did not work out, leaving them hard up for cash...which resulted in the move to the creepy mansion.

    And why is the house creepy? Direct from the book:

    "Chichester Court has sheltered a lot of angry people. And anger breeds anger, especially in idleness and stagnant spaces, and then spills into this cauldron of resentment and conflicting emotions and simmers and bubbles over the years until all this ill-feeling spills over and leaks into the nooks and crannies, the bricks and mortar of its confinement. Where does it go? Where can it go? There are no channels to release it, only an old tangled web of discordant lines and too many empty spaces in which to breed. Oh, that house is one huge, voracious parasite for the wrong kind of energy."

    Be aware of the UK wording in several places, which means not just different spellings than those in the US, but sometimes slightly different meanings. For example: a housing scheme was referred to several times, and what was meant was the organization of how mothers come to be selected to take up residence in the halfway house, not that there was something sordid about how the selection process works. (People who have read stories by UK authors will pay this no attention, but I wanted to make note of this for readers that have not read a UK author before).

    In summary, an interesting spooky tale that is great to while away a rainy afternoon.

    Note: A free review copy was provided by the author
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  • Jenny Twist
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you enjoy a spooky tale, you will love this one
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2014
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    I’m a big fan of Lynette Sofras and have read all her books but this one is my favourite. I do so enjoy a good ghost story.
    The plot revolves around five women who are living in an old house dedicated as a refuge for lone mothers and their children. But there is something sinister about Chichester house. The women hear voices and they and their children have disturbing dreams. And sometimes – just sometimes – the house changes. Rooms are not the same shape. There are doors where there were none before. The furniture is old-fashioned and you may glimpse a serving girl in Victorian dress or a mysterious woman in grey.
    If you enjoy a spooky tale, you will love this one. It is beautifully-written in flawless English with superb plot and pacing. Like all the best writers, Ms Sofras has created characters you can care about - very important for me. (It doesn’t matter how good the writing and plot is. If I don’t care about the people I don’t care about the book.) And she certainly knows how to build suspense.
    This is one of those books that is difficult to put down and one that I know I shall read again. Ms Sofras keeps on getting better and better!
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  • Eva87
    5.0 out of 5 stars Spooky and elusive
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2014
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    This ghostly story surrounding the relationships between the five women of Chichester Court is an intriguing one. It was very difficult to put down as I wanted to learn more and more about each woman and about the building they shared.

    The building has a dark history and it seems that some of the women are more connected to it than anyone would have thought. The building seems to have brought them all together for some reason - and not for the first time.

    It takes a little while to get your head around who's who with so many characters, but once you have, you're hooked!

    Lyn has such a flair for writing and it makes reading her books effortless and a real pleasure. As usual I got lost in her story and didn't want to come away from it.
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